suddenly awake
to see a sharp sickle
hanging low
in the winter sky...
I grasp the edge of my dream
Favorite Tanka, 2012 Siloh Tanka Contest
A Room of My Own: Freedom and Mass Graves Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, LV: "mass graves"
hosting Passover
the festival of freedom ...
a neighbor's TV
blasts news of the mass graves
f...