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A tan-renga collaboration by Amelia Fielden and Michael Dylan Welch. Written 18 July 2011 on the ferry from Sidney, British Columbia to Anacortes, Washington. First published in Red Lights 8:2, June 2012, page 33. Also published in Amelia Fielden’s Conversations in Tanka, Port Adelaide, Australia: Ginninderra Press, 2014, page 110. See “Four Tan-Renga Sets” for additional tan-renga in this series.
twin cherry trees
flowered branches entwined
like an old myth Amelia
the Norwegian exchange student
winks at me Michael
backpacking
in shorts and sandals,
nose sunburnt Amelia
finally, by the campfire,
your best bear growl Michael
day after day
raking leaves into piles
no time for poetry Amelia
oh, to be Han Shan
on a drizzly morning Michael
pewter lake
reflecting pewter sky—
one black swan Amelia
a fractal frost
on the locomotive window Michael
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