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Monday, May 27, 2013

YOUR PICTURE


You
would probably
delete it –
you’re so fussy
about
your photos –
angle, expression
shadow and light always
          perfect –
contrived – controlled.

But it’s mine. Unaffected

your eyes
alive with the moment –
a fixed point
frozen
before winter’s descent –
shining at
smiling at
warming
loving
me –
present undefiled
future still unreal –
the last good bad time.


Monday, May 13, 2013

TANKA - Epilogue



Home Helen goes to
          Menelaus, best of men.
                   Paris, beloved
of Aphrodite, succumbs –
Narcissus garlands his rest.