Prolific short form poet James Roderick Burns returns to The Dewdrop with a themed set of tanka “Waka waka waka”. Humor simmers in these poetic images alongside traditionalist nature scenes. James juxtaposes 21st Century modernism into verse which would have a home in among the work of ancient Japanese and Chinese masters, as though Stonehouse and Kerouac scribbled tanka together on a scroll.
Waka waka waka
Windstorm lofts
that polystyrene box
this great skein
of plastic into the trees –
sausage dog impervious
*
——cloud
———ripple
——-(moonlight)
lakewater
—moon
*
Aspiration –
in my pinned tweet
a warm capybara
leaps into the river
pauses to reflect
James Roderick-Burns
James Roderick Burns’ fifth collection of short-form poetry, Crows at Dusk, was published by Red Moon Press in 2023. He is a Reader in Poetry for Ploughshares and Co-editor/Tanka editor of Presence, the UK’s leading haiku journal. He can be found on Twitter @JamesRoderickB.
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