Snipe Rising From A Marsh – Birds in Tanka

the sparrow

leaves its message

coming home

the old man still awaits

son’s return from battle

Common name: Indian Sparrow
Biological name- Passer indicus bactrianus

Place name- Berhampur, Orissa, India

Atlas Poetica, Special Feature “Snipe Rising From A Marsh – Birds in Tanka, April, 2012 (Ed. Rodney Williams)