my soul
can soar over the Pacific
yet my feet
know the enclosing walls
of an attic room
Ribbons, 5:4, Winter 2009
A Room of My Own: Stock Ticker Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, CCXCVI: "stock ticker "
a bruised girl’s hand
clutches a slice of bread
in pixels—
a stock ticker flashes past
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