does a tree notice
when each burnished leaf falls?
all around me
the world carries on
. . . as if you weren’t gone
© Julie Thorndyke
first published Eucalypt 15 2013
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Julie Anne Thorndyke 
I love the imagery and gentleness of this tanka, yet there is such power in subtlety. Beautiful tanka indeed.