- Gary Hunter
Tanka* - Nov. 13, 2020
in the dead of night
words annoy both the silence
and the fearless moon
in one lone coyote’s eyes
a pair of full fearless moons
*a Japanese 31 syllable poem
broken into five lines of
5-7-5-7-7
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