Eighteen years have passedan old man stands at my dooryour smile melts the yearspulling me into your armswhere we are lovers once more
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Tanka Journal poet
Shasta Hatter was a poet on the scene in Eugene, Oregon in the early 80's. In 1998 she started to take a drug for bipolar disorder and lost the poetry marching through her head so thought she had lost her poetry. In May of 2016 she decided to write a haiku a day for a month. This discipline gave her back her poetry. She hopes you enjoy her work.