for Edgar Allan Poe
I hear a tap-tap-tap
from my mind's window ...
a raven
sitting in the bare tree
repeats its call
Ribbons, 14:3, Autumn 2018
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
...
