drought
a cactus wren sips…
Author: Don Miller
Don Miller lives in southern New Mexico, USA. He has been writing tanka since the early 1980s, and has had his tanka, tanka sequences, tanka prose, and other short-form poetry published on a somewhat regular basis in various print and online journals since the early 2000s.
Flashpoint 572
In…
late innings in the stands…
folding prayers. . .
a thousand…
returning
to the vanishing…
razor sharp
with his divisiveness…
I am drawn
to the darkness…
drought
the rain gauge
two-tenths…
day at the park
picnic blankets…
a stone
next to a frozen pond…
frozen
in silence
the depth…
lake reflection. . . .
the…
Feast of the New Year —…
autumn thunder
in the distance…
masquerade ball ……
pigeons
scatter through…
withered
near the fountain…
moon shadow
the pyracantha…
entwined . . .
this thought…