Tanka

siren-wind catcalls
the building snowed in
pane rattles in frame
fire engine hooonnnnnnnnnnks
— bed that much warmer
Shelter, prompt of week 37
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The spring issue is up of Modern English Tanka.
They are very different than traditional. A breath and a glance of becoming alert, senryu-like sometimes such as Linda Jeannette Ward’s tanka

I pull on a pair
of vintage kid gloves—
in a black fingertip
the prick
of somebody’s nail

Or from an earlier issue James Andrew Lockhart’s

listening—
bad news after bad news
on the radio . . .
Amazing Grace bleeds in
from another station

This form is headed in so many directions, from microfiction of Aurora Antonovic or Kozue Uzawa to meditation of Jean Leblanc, to fewer syllables than haiku in gardens of Engle, to modernist typset and turn of Larry Kimmel, to layered images of Fran Witham to comically anecdotal of M Kei and Jack Prewitt.