UKRAINE TANKA # 1 ...

UKRAINE TANKA # 1
Judge Tutken

He later that night
Upon me looks with that same
Bodhisattva smile
Which equally would regard
Rape or charity.

UKRAINE TANKA #2 ...

UKT #2

New snow settled on
The straight road between the trees
Where two dark figures
Walk, so dark that I cannot
Make out their numbers.