Tanka Sequence (Set)

Clothes

sunflowers
splashed all over
my dress—
bare-armed, I scattered
the seeds of childhood

for so long
she draped it around herself
the same thick cloak
that near the end
slipped off her shoulders

—Skylark, 5:1, Summer 2017

Silhouettes

silhouettes

we made of ourselves

in grade school… 

how many know me

only by my profile

—A Hundred Gourds, 2:3, June 2013

A wrist band

a wrist band

IDs me with name

and age—

still, all these people

ask me who I am

~hospital, Katy, Texas, USA

—Atlas Poetica 20, January 2015