Matcha and Birds／抹茶と鳥方

Inside this poetry chapbook: 12 haikus, 9 senryūs, 5 tankas, 1 somonka, 1 dodoitsu, and a gogyōka ode to blue jays. The poems of Matcha and Birds cover a breadth of topics from birds and nature to an eclipse to love to bicycling to tea on a summer day, all originally written in the second-language Japanese of an Anglophone deeply in love with traditional forms of Japanese poetry. This chapbook inc…