Category: Grand tanka

• Conversations with my mother, now long-dead

  I write to you everyday and each night in my mind — out of sight, out of love, out of repetition. Wearing grooves through stone along the road, my words think they can erase the first set and grind rather new ones or wipe them out altogether, letting me slide free off these memories, into…

  Jenifer

  June 9, 2016

  Family, Grand tanka, Grief, Love, Memory, Mother, Muse, Tanka

  Grand tanka, poetry

• A prayer

  I approach thee in thy round heaven brown, incarnate — your glow soft, flickering as my eyes close to forget you are near always and ever hiding in darkness, in view only when sleep comes to rescue me as a lingering taste on my back palate as a lingering shadow in the descendant fog —…

  Jenifer

  May 24, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Grand tanka, Meditation, Muse, Tanka, Yoga

  poetry