A Room of My Own: All the Feelings Tanka

I was told

to hide all the feelings

once grown --

carrying this silver casket

I shed tears for her, and me

FYI: This could be read as a sequel to my tanka below:

with each sob

his body convulses …

in the hospital

for the first time

I embrace a man

Ribbons, 7:4, Winter 2011