dreams banished
from the clear blue sky
I count
the number of birthday cakes
eaten in my attic room
Honorable Mention, 2010 Think Tanka Contest
A Room of My Own: This Silver World Tanka
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*reading between the lives and writing between the lines*, LXXXVIII
the curtain glides up
and screen light pours forth
as music swells ...
this silver world...