Fishing Tanka

Amelia Michelle Nicol 1990 (Denver)



An opaque line bent
beneath the surface water
tension breaks focus
angular space caught fishing
working displacement values
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Scheme ABCDE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 123
Words 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5

Amelia Michelle Nicol

Amelia Nicol is an autodidactic generalist who loves to write. She is a seventh generation Coloradan and lives in the mountains with her family. more…

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