Spring Tanka SequenceTall skeleton Treefills with new leaves and flowersin only three dayswhile new moon meditates onwhat she can see in the darkLike spring flowers, moonbegins to open her eye;three days in the darkhave taught her what turtles knowwhen they bury eggs in sandAnd egg is a seedburied deep in my body;a poem is an egg,after three dark days it cracks,my spring daughter pushes through
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