English Tanka
walking the corridors
of the old asylum
now apartments for those
looking for the quiet life
the cemetery - a rose garden
the guided tour
impossible saints - weeping statues
the light never fails
the nun at the gift shop
offers me a concession
born broken
born to die
deflated
i youtube elephants
listening to a piano
backslider
dead to born again
believers
walking the opposite way
down the same street
attempts at self-love
not gone unnoticed
by god or the wife
both light sleepers
apparently
i hang on
to yesterday
like there's no tomorrow
living i figure
a young man's game
Steve Black
