Sunday, November 2, 2025

A Room of My Own: One Extra Hour Tanka

daylight saving ends:
on this lazy new day
one extra hour
with a fly asleep
between the window and screen


Added:

fall time change
crows’ caws darkening
twilight


FYI: This could be read as a prequel to my haiku below:

a crow's cry
flies into darkness ...
alone with myself

VerseWrights, September 2015 


Added: 

No Screaming Tragedy in Ordinary Life

One extra hour with my drunken shadow
and a fly trapped between the window and screen.

fall time change
crows’ caws darkening
twilight


FYI: I incorporated the tanka and the haiku above into this short haibun.


Added: 

The nights are starting to grow cold and dark again.

colder and darker
in each corner of my mind ...
fall time change




Added:

leaves turn shades
of yellow, orange, red, purple ...
her eyes do the talking


Added:

my eardrums
stabbed by my son's rock and roll --
this distance between us


Added:

pre-dawn hush 
a moose’s antlers drip
with dew

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