A Room of My Own: Another Snowstorm Tanka

another snowstorm …

in a world of one color

I watch passersby

each of us drifting

alone together

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a gray-haired man

slumps against the alley wall

behind a tavern

clouds of his breath rise

and drift into the dark

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red tip of a cigarett

between missile sirens --

darkness among stars

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in silence

I rehearse my script again

outside the job fair

daffodil heads peek out 

from a patch of snow

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first "pop, pop, pop"  

then lies layered with cement ...

ICE on the beat

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It’s March Weather

Hawaii floods and Alabama snows. In the Northeast, temperatures flip-flop daily while the West Coast burns under a red-hot heatwave. With the TV on mute, I stare through the window at the twilight, grey as ash.

coal-soot haze rests

on scattered farmhouses

Four More Years askew