Mary's June nightmare
cleared my own path of debris;
then, other poets
showed me how to navigate,
by poetry, to the stars.
Kyakuchuu
Author's Notes/Comments:
Mary Shelley and Patriciajj have both bestowed upon me (though I am undeserving) tremendous poetic blessings. I urge you to read them both.
Patriciajj is one of those few poets (like Stevens, Eliot, Vergil) whose lines resonate in my soul; whose poems are vitally important to me, their poems having made the Cosmos meaningful and joyous. Again, borrowing (and adjusting) a phrase Ezra Pound used when speaking of Eliot: READ HER!
The first line of the Tanka alludes to Mary's novel, Frankenstein.