A Room of My Own: Ladder to the Moon Tanka

for Georgia O'Keeffe, painter of "Ladder to the Moon,"

who remarked, Nothing is less real than realism.

my lifeworld

confined within the walls

of this rented room ...

half-asleep, half-awake

I climb a ladder to the moon

FYI: ScienceDaily, Dec.10, 2018: Your brain on imagination: It's a lot like reality, study shows (source: University of Colorado at Boulder)