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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Poetic Musings: Lopsided Heart Tanka by Sanford Goldstein

my kid 
carrying it 
home, 
her lopsided 
heart

This Short Life: Minimalist Tanka, 2014

Sanford Goldstein  

Commentary: Sanford's provocative minimalist tanka gives the reader a "visually and emotionally concrete" description of a child’s artwork,'lopsided" "heart," one that can be transmuted into a metaphor for the whole human condition— which of us does not carry a “lopsided heart”?