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senryu  
fighter jets tracking  
shadows of ghost planes in vain  
radar keeps circling  
   
   
tanka  
in their leap of faith,  
some holding hands together  
streak through clearest blue,  
descend with knell of impact—  
autumn's mist of pink rising  
   
   
tanka  
the drone at dawn,  
a hijacked plane glinting bright,  
the unseen struggle  
passing lower overhead,  
farmers in their fields waving  
   
   
tanka  
fifteen years later,  
I look across from Jersey—  
Tower South is down,  
the other is still standing,  
People gasp, watching smoke trails.  
   
   
I posted this in my current DUP competition as host, "=15=".  It's not an entry.  
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