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Janet Lynn Davis
when you are gone
I eat on white melamine
same dishes
I’ve complained about before:
generic, expressionless
my photo
missing from your nightstand . . .
discovered
upon your return!
a suitcase can hold many things
thirty pairs of shoes
yet I wear tattered sandals
that make you grimace —
you know, you can throw them out
I hear but don’t comply
too many remotes
too many cable channels
you try to teach me
but how long can I sit still
by the TV anyway?
one hundred degrees
pool all to myself —
I seal my eyes shut
imagine I’m hot hot hot
as a swimsuit model
you groan
about your growing belly —
increase your belt size
or turn the dark, sinful
chocolates over to me
leaves turn
shades of indigo and sapphire
sometimes
I live in
a blue world
leaves turn
into launching pads
for my warped sense
of imagination...
it’s finally autumn!
smooth stones
so sensual
we must not only
touch them softly
but write about them also
Janet Lynn Davis used to write and edit for a living in Houston, Texas.
She has since taken up poetry composition and, in the past year or so,
has had a number of her poems published in Web-based and small-press print
journals. She is a newcomer to tanka but feels she already may be addicted
to it.
In a language that is relaxed and fluid, Davis's tanka touch on
themes of love, relationship, and personal reflection that have been
handled in tanka for over a thousand years, in the waka poetry of Japan,
but here
are transformed by the informality and enthusiasms of a fresh voice and
pair of eyes focused on this time, this place, this world. --Michael
McClintock
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2005: Simply Haiku |
