Here is today’s tanka:

Tanka literally means “short poem” and consists of 31 syllables in a pattern of five lines (5 -7 - 5 - 7 – 7).  The Tanka was the dominant form of classic Japanese poetry from the seventh to twentieth century. – according to Elements of Japanese Design by Boye Lafayette De Mente.

 

Here is today’s tanka:

 

The men have no names

Only Fukushima fifty

Suited, gloved by threes

Canaries in a cage-match

Gamma heroes, radiate