David W. McFadden

Both tankas and haiku are Japanese-styles of poetry. A tanka consisting of five lines, the first and third of which have five syllables and the other seven, making 31 syllables in all and giving a complete picture of an event or mood. A haiku usually contains three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. Both were introduced to me in some English class in the fog of my schooling and promptly forgotten. But McFadden has been working with this style of verse for a while. And it shows.

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