Jenny Ward Angyal

POV

“Adversity,” my grandmother often claimed, “is the diamond dust Heaven polishes her jewels with.”  

A cocky eight-year-old, I asked her, “Why? Why didn’t heaven just make a perfect world and skip the diamond dust?” 

cuckoo clock—
the bird still calling
my name

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About the Author

Jenny Ward Angyal is the author of several collections of tanka, tanka sequences, tanka-prose, and haibun. Her books are available on Amazon. She currently serves as Global Moderator of Inkstone Poetry Forum. 

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