Dali paintings
on the café wall
the door wide open
to a strange summer
in a strange town
The Tanka Anthology, 2003
Martin Lucas
Commentary: ... Nature is never far away; the imagery of tanka in English is in fact impossible without it. In these modern poems, the tanka poets revel in nature as they find it—which may be in New York’s Central Park as often as by a small stream in a mountain meadow. Martin Lucas's tanka is about a [surreal/Surrealist] nature peculiar to the twentieth century and an example of the kind of nature that tanka in English inhabit and compel us to witness... -- excerpted from "To the Lighthouse: Introduction to The Tanka Anthology by Michael McClintock
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