dash

English Tanka
 
walking the corridors
of the old asylum
now apartments for those
looking for the quiet life
the cemetery - a rose garden

dash

the guided tour
impossible saints - weeping statues
the light never fails
the nun at the gift shop
offers me a concession

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born broken
born to die
deflated
i youtube elephants
listening to a piano

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backslider
dead to born again
believers
walking the opposite way
down the same street

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attempts at self-love
not gone unnoticed
by god or the wife
both light sleepers
apparently

dash

i hang on
to yesterday
like there's no tomorrow
living i figure
a young man's game

Steve Black

 
If you have any thoughts on these tanka, Steve Black would be pleased to hear them.


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