#tanka – Page 2 – Words and Coffee Writing

Poem: Memory Tree

water plunges home dodging rocks and broken roots cascading ripples presence carved onto tree limbs identity blossoms here

Hunting Orion’s famed shape through my Pixel’s lens: crystalline stars the perfect opulence of night, pitchy purple shadow sky

Paradise paces away from my frozen home waves ripple and lap at sea-worn driftwood sculptures sand dunes rise to meet my feet

Billowed bitter air
puffs from purple lips. Clumsy,
frost-nipped fingertips…