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Issue 20: 15 Sept. 2023
Tanka: 12; 10; 14; and
15 words
By Sarah Das Gupta

Four Micro-Poems

 
An ant runs easily 
over my page 
of words 
so painfully 
born 


::: 


The glacier 
cool-headed 
in sultry July 
For how many 
summers? 


::: 


Seen from a train, 
	two hares boxing 
deep snow drifts 
	framed by 
wind-bent thorns 


::: 


A temple bell 
		tolls in 
mothy, midnight darkness 
		incense lingers long 
in the humid air 

Sarah Das Gupta
Issue 20 (September 2023)

is an 81-year-young writer living near Cambridge, UK. She started writing six months ago after being in hospital following an accident. Her writing has been published in over 40 magazines from US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Croatia, and Mauritius. She is interested in nature, the environment, history, animals, and horticulture.

 
 
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