waking
next to a stranger
with no clothes on . . .
the afternoon sun
deepens the silence
Atlas Poetica, 22, 2015
One Man's Maple Moon: Heated Bodies Tanka by Jane Reichhold
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*English Original*
almond nails
pressed into brown skin
a faint perfume
of two heated bodies
touching light as petals
*A Gift of Tanka*, 1990
Jane Reic...