Three Tanka

                    1

                    Dead-end street 

                    into a midnight garden

                    where old spirits 

                    and breathless dreams 

                    watch and wait 

                    2

                    Somewhere 

                    in the realm

                    between 

                    light and shadow

                    remembering and knowing 

                    3

                    Still

                    I wait 

                    through all the forgetting

                    and loud passage of days

                    into shapeless nights