Shernaz Wadia
Born: India
Resides: Pune, India
Years back, Shernaz Wadia chanced upon Tanka through an article in boloji.com. Since then, she has been writing sporadically in the haikai genre and has had some tanka, haibun and tanka prose published now and then, as she doesn’t submit too often to journals. She is more into writing long form poems. She has participated in Triveni festivals conducted in Pune.
tanka
rain water
rushing down the hillside
you outrace it
in your slide
back to alcohol
hungry goats
on either side
the grassy
no-man’s land
out of bounds even to them
a rainstorm
pelts the roof and windows
through the din
this loudening song
of a whistling blue thrush
the answer
is not in the “yes”
but in the way
your eyes move away
when you say it
Publication credits:
rain water: Ribbons Spring 09; hungry goats: Atlas Poetica #33; a rainstorm: Atlas Poetica September 2014; the answer: ATPO, Take Five - Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume 4 (2011).