58 words.

Year of the Snake Contest entry. August. 931 words. Trigger: #3: Denial of Death; #6: A Personal Name. Gloss: Aysus Mariosep: ‘Jesus, Mary, Joseph.’ An expression in which one takes the holy family’s names in vain. Kuya: ‘older brother.’ Honorific.

It's a three part poem, the first half is inspired from the tanka from Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology which also inspires the situation for which the poem takes place in. The second half is inspired by Albert Saijo and his writing style. The last part shows the life he has now after his catharsis Word count: 72

From BR #70: Triggers for September: 1. then there would be much laughter 2. we have no strength left 3. the night was the longest 4. I did not see…

Triggers for September: 1. fast relief from pain 2. you know it can’t hurt you 3. an unsafe place to be 4. each small piece of me 5. like shifting…

my "prosetry" born too late…another time another place my heart longs…August entry

Year of the Snake entry for August. An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. 500 words. For TK.

From Issue 67/68:           “For the past twelve centuries, the Japanese people have expressed their intense pent-up emotions in tanka, one of the most unique and shortest forms of poetic expression…

From “Kona Glitter, 1964: A Ghost Story,” by Kobai Scott Whitney . . .           For the life of me, I can’t remember what word we used for “hunk”in 1964. It…

August already, and our contest enters its fourth year. This month, the limit is again, no limit — as many or as few words as you would like to write….