a cow’s skull
of polished bone—
through the orbit
of the eye
this patch of snowdrops
~red lights 10:2, June 2014
the slow chant
of chorus frogs
chilled
near to freezing
my hands fill with starlight
~red lights 10:2, June 2014
of polished bone—
through the orbit
of the eye
this patch of snowdrops
~red lights 10:2, June 2014
of chorus frogs
chilled
near to freezing
my hands fill with starlight
~red lights 10:2, June 2014
These feel like a "sequence" or "tanka pair" to me. The eery feel of the nature imagery in the first part and then the hope and joy in line 5. I also like the link between the two of "orbit" and "starlight."
ReplyDeleteThanks, Janet! I didn't write them as a pair, but, as often happens, they seemed to want to be together.
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