Friday, October 17, 2025

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Tanka.

“Music finds its way where the rays of the sun cannot penetrate.” —Kierkegaard

Stairway to Heaven.

"pleonasm"

golden gleam of morning
aghast smoky crystal

time denied in nomquab
nimble-to-trip rhapsode

sovran symptom chalice
settlement frore Bering

funest Melba marlscrape
amounts to long hangman

scroll of real description
scrupulous dord sidewalk

pale green & its granting
where gruesome wounds bristle

upscale scarecrow Anschluss
only the crows finish

my chapbooks once chiseled
a chess move's toit tattled

Melba among monsters
even as a master

names scurry escapeward
skillful if but leafless

& wander still whaleroad
that wears crescent passing

dawn among the myst'ries
mustering breath-earthquake

long shadows of laughter
future allots inchworm

sit here till the circles
of Saturn chime term-cairn

learning little whispers
along the curved larvae

Tanka.

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