Tanka Journal poet

Anna Cates

8 poems in Issue 3, Issue 4, Issue 5, Issue 6

In their own words

Anna Cates resides in Wilmington, Ohio with her two beautiful kitties and teaches in Southern New Hampshire University’s online M.F.A. in creative writing program. A regular contributor to literary publications, her first full length collection of haiku and other poems, “The Meaning of Life,” is available at Cyberwit.net and Amazon:

http://www.cyberwit.net/authors/anna-cates

Anna Cates in the “Living Haiku Anthology”:

http://livinghaikuanthology.com/surnames-c/290-anna-cates/2687-anna-cates.html

gourmet pizzaat a sidewalk eateryan atheist and a preacherdebate gay dadsfading sunlight

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autumn moona stone paththrough the woodsbreaths of windI seek you

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new leavesas dawn breaksI followa sparrow to the riverto the sun

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a horned lark'stinkling callorange moonalmost fullof August

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wind storma single shinglelands in the grasshow everything crumblespiece by piece

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luminous snowfallfeeding the ocean's wailas dusk deepenswe cannot turn backstanding at world's end

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a fallen appleasleep in the grassfirst starshow quiet the twilightat harvest’s end

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Christmas Evebeneath the pear treea dead bluebirdoutside the hospicesilhouettes and shadows

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