A Tanka Kenkyu Newcomer Award-winning work by Kiyomi Sato. By placing a counseling room in the title, it suggests a sequence attentive to dialogue, silence, and emotional wounds.

In the silence of a small room, voices that could not be spoken begin to resonate.

A Tanka Kenkyu Newcomer Award-winning work by Kazuko Otaki. Its title turns baseball into an epic, drawing fleeting athletic moments, bodily movement, and the spectator's gaze into fixed-form verse.

The arc of a white ball turns a moment of play into narrative time.