Sunlight fills the backyardafter a January freeze,wind ripping the shrubs.Common starlings defy their nameshine green-black, spangled white.
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Tanka Journal poet
Larry Smith
1 poem in Issue 7
In their own words
Larry Smith is a translator from the Chinese Zen poets and the author of 8 books of poems, most recently Thoreau's Lost Journal: Poems. He lives with his wife Ann along the shores of Lake Erie in Ohio.