i have found something to smile about. Gary Blankenship, who very kindly was a guest poet here, has told us(the PK list) that he is to have 3 tanka in the Tanka Society of Japan's 2005 anthology-in japanese-. they are poems from the River Wang Tanka. i am just so happy for him. as i wrote, he is gifted at forms that i wish i could do justice to. s.