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| Issue 10X: | 24 Dec. 2021 |
| Micro-Poem: | 48 words |
| Tanka | Sequence |
By Cynthia Anderson
Merry and Bright
twin desert rats driving to town in their old tin can— white beards grazing their belt buckles tis the season for speeding hay trucks— chaff falls by the roadside storm watch cloudy and colder— passing on the right the swoop and cry of a peregrine
Cynthia Anderson
has ten poetry books in print, most recently The Missing Peace (Velvet Dusk Publishing, 2021). Her poems frequently appear in journals and anthologies, including Spillway, Crab Creek Review, Apercus, Askew, San Pedro River Review, Mojave River Review, The Coil, and Split Rock Review, among others. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. In 2020, she took up short-form poetry and has been exploring haiku, senryu, cherita, and related forms.
Cynthia is co-editor of the anthology A Bird Black As the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens (Green Poet Press). She makes her home in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park.
Author’s website: www.cynthiaandersonpoet.com
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