29 April, 2009

"autumn fire" tanka sequence

yellow moon fever—
children clap, fireflies go dark.
summer snapped shut.
the sun plummets, leaves catch fire.
falling! the crack of the noose.

autumn smells like tea—
spices and billowing leaves.
trees perish in fire,
halloween masks of bone-mouths
drinking the ash of summer.

noon—fire in the fields;
a checkered picnic blanket
____cartwheels, abandoned.
i blow smoke out the window,
____my lover rides the train home.

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