for three dawns
the faint call of tundra swans
through a drifting mist --
once more I replay your
last message on my machine
Scent of Jasmine and Brine, 2007
Linda Jeannette Ward
Commentary: In this tanka Jeanette presents two sounds that are both opposed and linked. Opposed in that one sound is alive and animated (the tundra swans call), and the other is mechanised (a voice recording on an answering machine). Yet at the same time these sounds are linked by their haunting quality, and the inability to see or pin down the instigator of the sound.
-- excerpted from "To the Lighthouse: Sensing Tanka: Perceiving Life Beyond the Ordinary" by David Terelinck
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