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A tan-renga collaboration by Michael Dylan Welch and Amelia Fielden. Written 18 July 2011 on the ferry from Sidney, British Columbia to Anacortes, Washington. First published in Red Lights 8:2, June 2012, page 34. Also published in Amelia Fielden’s Conversations in Tanka, Port Adelaide, Australia: Ginninderra Press, 2014, page 111. See “Four Tan-Renga Sets” for additional tan-renga in this series.
departure day—
a snapdragon falls
to the old kitchen table— Michael
all the other vases
packed in bubble wrap Amelia
the spinnaker
red and full
her lips Michael
the scent and taste
of sea-salt Amelia
fading light—
a seedpod rattles
in the baby’s hand Michael +
clutching at straws
I repeat his words to myself Amelia
starting to melt
my daughter’s snow angel
inside mine Michael
last year’s ski suit
a tad too tight Amelia
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