we lie
side by side in bed
does she still desire
the high school boy
who first touched her heart
Tanka Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2017
A Room of My Own: Toy Forest Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, CC: "US-made bombs"
a toy forest
in his biscuit tin ...
the boy holds it tight
as US-made bombs drop
silencing ...