Sunday, January 8, 2012

As in an Ordinary Month

(Tanka Times Three)

(C) R.L.K.

1.
Silvery moonlight
pouring down on the sand dunes;
Our summer's gone, but
there are nights when I can still
hear soft laughter on the shore.

2.
Cold and gray. Thin mist
surrounding gnarled old trees.
A small bird scurries,
shadowless under stratus:
here, then there, then gone away.

3.
Just one of those days:
sitting on the back porch with
little to do but
watch the clouds part and the sky
turn blue after the rain ends.