Our sequences, collaborative tanka, and tanka prose reach from Neolithic Ireland to medieval Vietnam to memories of modern childhood. Mythology is a common theme, with poets finding inspiration, lessons, secrets-and terror-in the ancient stories. The bones of Jewish children become a plaque in a Paris street; in New Mexico, a woman finds oblivion under the fiery skies. No longer are monsters hidden in the mists; they enter our veins and run openly, but invisibly, through the streets of our cities.