what is
on your mind, in your heart
she stares at me --
I keep dreaming of myself
standing at the edge of the world
talking in her sleep
do you love me ...
I remember
the farewell photo of you
amid forget-me-nots
you have never
completely let me in
she yells out
while on top of me...
you're in and out of my mind
she laments
my knight in shining armor
turns out
to be a frog...
a lump in my throat
sand castle
built in that shining summer
for three of us --
now all that remains
is my footprints in new snow
anthologized in Butterfly Away (Magnapoets Anthology, #3)
A Room of My Own: Butterfly Kite Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, LIX: "Rafah's border wall"
the kids stare
beyond Rafah's border wall
the slow descent
of a butterfly kite
sever...