I do remember being politely declined as a boyfriend any more, but then we watched television, no politics. And I still went out with her and her mate for a while.
Can't remember being disassembled over dinner, but those drama scenes on TV and film always make me cringe when they are set in a public arena. :-)
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a cat picking
at discarded fast food
this night without you
filling with the hum
of regular rain
Alan Summers
The Strand Book Of International Poets 2010 (Ed. Imran Hanif and Jane Lee ISBN: 9781907340062); Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Vol. 3 (MET Press 2010)
July 2015 issue of brass bell, featuring poems by Alan Summers
I like how this can be read in different ways – a sense of a damn good meal, and/or a good debate, or the air cleared, or the more troubling relentless going over of something. And is it the last as in previous, or the last as in the last ever. Multi layered and enjoyable.
April 4th, 2018 at 10:25 am
Yes.
April 4th, 2018 at 11:17 am
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our last dinner date
the bones
picked clean
—CHRISTINE TAYLOR
ouch!
I do remember being politely declined as a boyfriend any more, but then we watched television, no politics. And I still went out with her and her mate for a while.
Can't remember being disassembled over dinner, but those drama scenes on TV and film always make me cringe when they are set in a public arena. :-)
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.
a cat picking
at discarded fast food
this night without you
filling with the hum
of regular rain
Alan Summers
The Strand Book Of International Poets 2010 (Ed. Imran Hanif and Jane Lee ISBN: 9781907340062); Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Vol. 3 (MET Press 2010)
July 2015 issue of brass bell, featuring poems by Alan Summers
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April 5th, 2018 at 1:17 am
Loved this classically satirical senryu, powerful allusion and imagery
… and as counterpoint …
first dinner date
each course
barely touched
April 5th, 2018 at 5:33 am
the last date
our waiter and I
received a tip
__ Smiles, Jane… an uneasy scene that we all, at some point, may have been a part.
April 11th, 2018 at 4:24 am
…until there's nothing left! Very effective, Christine.
marion
April 22nd, 2018 at 11:22 am
I like how this can be read in different ways – a sense of a damn good meal, and/or a good debate, or the air cleared, or the more troubling relentless going over of something. And is it the last as in previous, or the last as in the last ever. Multi layered and enjoyable.
April 22nd, 2018 at 12:29 pm
Wow . . .amazingly good! Sorry I have no poetic response today, but had to at least let you know how much I liked it! :)