A Quarterly Journal
Jeffrey Woodward, Founder & Owner
Ray Rasmussen, General Editor

Volume 12, Number 4, December 2018

Contents

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Announcement: Welcome to Our new Tanka Prose Editors & Many Thanks to Our Retiring Editor, Janet Lynn Davis

Articles, Interviews & Book Reviews: Patricia Prime, Editor

Tim Gardiner’s The Flintknapper’s Ghost, A Review by Patricia Prime. Roger Jones’ Goodbye, A Review by Tony Beyer. M. Kei's (Editor) Stacking Stones: An Anthology of Short Tanka Sequences, A Review by Tony Beyer. Harriot West’s Shades of Absence, A Review by Patricia Prime.

Editor's Challenge #2: Personal Commentaries

Personal Commentaries: What are they and why they should continue. Salil Chaturvedi’s “Out of Character,” A Personal Commentary by Adelaide Shaw. Margaret Chula's “For Rent,” A Personal Commentary by Cyndi Lloyd. Mark Forrester’s “The Waning,” A Personal Commentary by Kevin Nusser. Marilyn Humbert's "Hope," A Personal Commentary by Terri French Chen-ou Liu’s “The Distance of Love,” A Personal Commentary by Pravat Kumar Padhy. Chen-ou Liu’s “The Distance of Love,” A Personal Commentary by Gerry Jacobson.

Haibun: Melissa Allen, Terri French, Rich Youmans & Ray Rasmussen, Editors

Catherine M. Altimari, Ghosts in the Graveyard Steve Andrews, Peas on a Knife Ludmila Balabanova, Without Watch c.m.b., Beautiful and Alive Pris Campbell, Riding the Wind Pris Campbell, Taking Flight Theresa A. Cancro, The Visit Theresa A. Cancro, Manzanar 1942 Matthew Caretti, Presence Matthew Caretti, Witching Hour Anna Cates Vignette Salil Chaturvedi, Cross-legged Cockroach Thomas Chockley, Vision Quest Glenn G. Coats, Surrogate J Hahn Doleman, Song of the Centipede J Hahn Doleman, Dropping In Martin Duguay, Reverse Culture Shock Lynn Edge, Discovery Colleen M. Farrelly, Fires and Stones Mary Ellen Gambutti, My Empty Lot Mark Gilbert, Endosperm Richard Grahn, Moving On Florence Heyhoe, Dead a Long Time Ruth Holzer, Patient Peter Jastermsky, Waiting Out December David J. Kelly, Still Life S.M. Kozubek, Prodigal Catherine J.S. Lee, Roughing it Catherine J.S. Lee, Summer Flight Cyndi Lloyd, September 25 Doris Lynch, Second Delivery

Doris Lynch, Interlude Charlotte Mandel, Running Notes Guatam Nadkami, Voter’s Rites Kevin Nusser, Poet’s Beach Sean O’Connor, Big Boys Maeve O’Sullivan, Primary Renée Owen, It Hardly Computes Renée Owen, The Sea Lion Pravat Kumar Padhy, Salt to Taste Tom Painting, Cyclorama Patricia Prime, The Tyrant Ray Rasmussen, Twice in the Kurimoto Garden Dian Duchin Reed, The Forever Sharp French Chef’s Knife Dian Duchin Reed, The LED Lip Rejuvenator Michael Rehling, gonna blow a fifty amp fuse Michael Rehling, just my imagination running away with me Bryan Rickert, Mini Me Bryan Rickert, Just Like Her Mom Alexis Rotella, Inside the morgue Patricia Sammon, Six Seeds Adelaide Shaw, Garden Design Yesha Shah, Moon Halo Yesha Shah, Pareidolia Christine Taylor, I Don’t Know What Love Looks Like Rebecca Vedavathy, This Is to Ask You To Lew Watts, Hiraeth Diana Webb, Holy Day of Obligation Simon Wilson, Seven Thousand Mornings Simon Wilson, Clockwork Birds and Sausage Rolls Rich Youmans, Atlantic City Ephemera Rich Youmans, Fresh Paint

Tanka Prose: Janet Lynn Davis, Editor

Steve Andrews, The Suitcase Jenny Ward Angyal, Original Sin Michelle Brock, Below the Surface Michelle Brock, A Moment of Weakness Susan Constable, Two Sons, Two Suicides Janet Lynn Davis, Somewhere Tish Davis, While Looking for Saddle Mountain Rebecca Drouilhet, Missing a Piece Claire Everett, The Final Straw Amelia Fielden, Assumptions

Richard Grahn, The Last Exit Gerry Jacobson, On the Acquisition of Walnuts Alex Jankiewicz, Nothing Is Lost Kala Ramesh, I Waited Long Adelaide B. Shaw, The Scent of You Charles D. Tarlton, The Night of the Mononoke Charles D. Tarlton, An Architectural Drawing by F L Wright Shernaz Wadia, Rock Stars of the Outback Jeffrey Woodward, The Trial of Dorothy Talbye, 1638 John Zheng, Mississippi John Hurt

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