A tantoumka is a loose knit of the poetic forms
tanka (syllabic - 57577,) and pantoum (in which the second and fourth
lines of the previous stanza are repeated as the first and third of its
successor.)
The fox in the coop
He's the hungry dog of hard
change, and he's Zola
He's the sharp, hot stink of fox
The stone buried in your brow
He's the hungry dog
hung up on a hill in vain
He's the shot-harp stink
of hot tramp! at your soiree
The scorpion up your sleeve
He's hung on a hill
He's kushrenada, the gnarls
of a tramp on your
limb. He's Zamjatin. He's bent
"The axe to your frozen sea"
He's kushrenada
He's the enemy, the sick
limb. He's Zamjatin
He's Kikuchiyo fishing
with his head underwater
He's the enemy
He has the song, the weapons
He's Kikuchiyo
in the bandit camp. He's cat
erpillar track and tank track
He has the song, the
range, and he's Zola exiled
to the bandit camp
The fox in the coop, the Z
of his jaw in the word fleZsh
