Footnote: August 6, 1945, 1

The light, flashed, is not

creative but destructive;

the blast's roar echoes

this statement:  not even death

deters this species from what

it will inflict on itself.

 

Kyakuchuu

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The great Tanka poet Mokichi Saito lengthened the Tanka form, from time to time, with a sixth line.  On that precedent, I have lenghtened this one, and some others, although my habit is to follow the more classical and proper form.

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