For 11 years David Feela was a contributing editor and columnist for the Inside/Outside Southwest magazine. He currently writes a monthly column for The Four Corners Free Press and for The Durango Telegraph. A poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments, won the Southwest Poet Series. His first full length poetry book, The Home Atlas, appeared in 2009. His new book of essays, How Delicate These Arches (Footnotes from the Four Corners), has just been released through Raven's Eye Press.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Weekly Worded
Before the Migration Tanka
After the wind has stripped all
the leaves from the limbs,
scattering them on the ground,
how much easier to see the birds
flocking the trees in feathers.
1 comments:
glorious. it reminds me of the one by masahide in which the barn burning down improves the view of the moon.
I know that Jim Tipton, my tanka guru, would suggest cutting it in about half, something like this ...
wind stripped
the limbs
gape, leafless
how much easier now
to see the birds
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