Chiba Satoshi's prize-winning sequence of tanka. The speaker and an addressed companion are joined by friends including Kent, who hopes to be an actor, and Hiro, an aspiring boxer; their relationships and partings unfold in a chain of conversational poems.

Scenes of basketball, a cook's departure, and an airport farewell move the sequence forward. After Kent's death in an accident, images of summer, language, hurt, and light recur.

A thirty-poem tanka sequence by Mizuho Ishii. It turns its attention to familiar places and daily occurrences, shaping fleeting perceptions into tanka.

A sequence that gives thirty-one-syllable form to small discoveries encountered in everyday life.