This tanka collection summons everyday feelings and memories through a condensed poetic form. As the afterword suggests, love, surprise, loneliness, grief, and nostalgia appear in varied shapes.

The genie of the lamp offers emotions in the form of tanka.

This haiku collection gives each brief poem the force of a world appearing at once. Around memory, marshland, and place, it opens wide landscapes and time within a short form.

From the marsh of memory, worlds of haiku emerge.