faded photo
in the family album
on New Year's Eve
eighteen-year-old me stares
at fifty-year-old me
Atlas Poetica, 29, 2017
A Room of My Own: Shard of Sunlight Tanka
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*just to be alive ...*
one long shard of sunlight
through a gap
in the bedroom curtains
touches my tear-streaked face
FYI: L1 alludes to the following:
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