A Room of My Own: Moonlit Dark Haiku

the neighbor's garden

fading into moonlit dark

a foreclosure sign

Added:

three glasses down

the lingering smell

of his apology

Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CII: "between fireballs"

calm between fireballs ...

moonlit ravens' kraa-kraa-kraa

darkening

Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CIII: "settler violence"

First Three-Line Visual Tanka

          under        slate-gray            skies

                                   |                          

a settler aims his gun | a boy throws his rock

                                   |

          tank track marks on the grass

FYI: The "single vertical line" has become the standard format for tanka written by the Japanese poets since the latter half of the 19th century; However, Ishikawa Takuboku, author of Poems to Eat and Romaji Diary and Sad Toys,  advocated for and started writing two or three lines, depending on the rhythm of each tanka. For more, see Hiroaki Sato, “Lineation of Tanka in English Translation,” 42 Monumenta Nipponica 3:347-56, Autumn 1987.

Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CIV: "scream after scream"

a scythe of lightning 

in Beirut's smoky orange sky

scream after scream cut off

FYI: Reuters, Oct. 6: UN refugee chief says airstrikes in Lebanon have violated humanitarian law