Collin Barber

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Tanka

buzzing
as if drunk from blood
a mosquito
bobs in the moonlight
at my bedroom window

 

 

 

 

cockroaches
briskly shuffle through
a shaft of light
as if just to get a glimpse
of the moon that makes it

Collin Barber works at a hospital in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. His poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007). He has won awards for haiku, senryu, and tanka, and he maintains a personal website at http://collinbarber.com.