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from Sep'2009 permanent website @ The Four Seasons of Haiku

tanka

spring rain
a gentle reminder
of our first affair
so distant now, it only
chills me to the bone


Pamela A. Babusci
1998

5 comments:

Beatrice V said...

oh... I love this tanka, Pamela.

Yansidara said...

I like this very much.

Pamela A. Babusci said...

beatrice & yansidara thank you both so much! pamela

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Megan Arkenberg said...

Beautiful! I love the use of "only" in the second-last line and the magnificant contrast between "gentle" reminder and chill "to the bone." Very well-crafted.