darkness between the stars
this sultry night my roommate
vanishes again
into the hive of drug addicts
to serve his chemical queen
Added:
smell of summer heat
shards of glass and syringes
around the dumpster
Added:
the cardboard box
in a high-rise shadow
bread crumbs
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXXXIII: "thousand-yard stare"
her thousand-yard stare ...
a young woman hugs a doll
dripping blood
FYI: "The thousand-yard stare or two-thousand-yard stare is a military phrase coined to describe the limp, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier, but the symptom it describes may also be found among victims of other types of trauma."
Added:
a growth of moss
on the high fence between me
and my neighbor ...
could anything change
if I apologized first
FYI: This could be read as a sequel to my tanka below:
my morning glories
climb her white fence ...
between us
in the backyard
there's a new divide
Haiku Canada Review, 11:2, 2017
