I should have known
I should have known, she says in defeat.
And yet what could anyone have done
to guard such a vulnerable place
against attack?
Tanka is a form of Japanese poetry which translates as "short song." It is 31 syllables and often broken up into five lines of 5/7/5/7/7 syllables.

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