Andrew Lansdown: ‘Garden Tanka Triptych’ and ‘Happiness’

Garden Tanka Triptych 1 It’s a staging post for little birds on their way to the birdbath— that’s why I spare the bamboo whose crookedness offends me. 2 A burst of feathers from a pigeon struck mid-air by a sparrowhawk— that flurry of petals as the wind stoops on the almond. 3 No, not that way! I want to cry as I spy the grass spider hauling her egg-sack into the unmown half of the lawn.

Andrew Lansdown Happiness for Susan 1 We are happy here, my wife and I, ambling in old Kyoto, being assailed by marvels and stars spinning from maples. 2 If the cold of fall can make the maples turn, surely more, lady, ought the heat of my heart make you redden and burn! Andrew Lansdown.