I’m having bad thoughts
and I don’t know how to shut…
Category Archive: Tanka
Is it a poppy?
she asks,
and I wonder…
It’s simple
I see a carved chair leg
I imagine…
am mush
I am the salt
left behind…
do you ever hold still so long
you wonder if your toes
remember how to flex…
I tipped the bowl toward me
and it spilled…
sometimes you write a poem
on a tissue…
sometimes
you breathe in the sunshine…
5 conversations swirling around me,
4 chambers in my brain…
not even a bad day,
some bad moments…
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