November by Jun Fujita On a pale sandhill A bare tree stands; The death-wind Has snatched the last few leaves. A Leaf by Jun Fujita The November sky without a star Droops low over the midnight street; On the pale pavement, cautiously A leaf moves. These poems appeared in the June 1921 issue of Poetry . From the Academy of American Poets: " The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of  waka , Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as...