her husband mutters,
just a few rolls in the hay
with an old flame ...
her inner voice asks, it isn't
a hot embrace with a new love?
FYI: This is a Q and A tanka. For more examples, see To the Lighthouse: Question and Answer Tanka
Added:
why do you eat bread
with garlic rubbed on it?
the lingering smell
will give me dreams
that I've recently been fed
Added:
oh, to safe one life
is to save the whole world
(this distance
in the rabbi's voice)
why this silence about bombings?
