65 Tanka, #22

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:56:51 +0000

Lavender garden
Water trickles over marble;
Light dances on leaves.
This place awakes an ancient thought –
Birds singing — each knows its prayer.

Tanka, #21

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:10:19 +0000

Three screens flash scenes of black crude
jetting to the surface to cover gulls,
nets, and sand. How will that fisherman
eat and live?

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:05:59 +0000

Mary Prince—pittied slave
bore naked floggings;
she had no patron to give her her
goody two shoes.
Now the English know the truth.

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:09:30 +0000

You read me wrong
I wasn’t trying to lead you on
not like you think.
Didn’t mean to turn you on.
Didn’t mean to turn you on.

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:44:10 +0000

Rain falls on rusted handrail
making its way through concrete pores
only to fall again on verdant grass;
grey horizon veiled.

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:05:02 +0000

Hollow sounds of an elevator shaft;
droning click of a wall clock;
traffic horns in the distance.
I watch my ice cream melt away.

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:05:44 +0000

Foot steps above me,
each rages on and on
while kindness is wasted;
the best parts of me used up.
Outside, old star, new moon.

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:59:30 +0000

Sun light pours into my room.
Blinds are drawn to slits.
The scent of fresh laundry, I see my mother’s face.
Ellipses cast on the wall.

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:03:06 +0000

Twelve cardboard boxes,
two glass bottles.
All sit in a green box
to take out in the morning again.
Who will take them away?

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:56:12 +0000

The ride home her baby
staring at me.
Unblinking eyes
its candy stick fallen
to the ground.
Exit blocked by old woman.