let me get my tired ass home.

something sensual about night-blooming cereus finally arriving home after an overnight shift #tanka

wanting to express all of my feelings in a torrent of words this morning i spill five lines down #tanka

wanting to express all of my feelings in a torrent of words this morning i spill five lines down #tanka

remembering the year that "Fire Pearls" were published by my mentor those days i went under the name 'Orestes' #tanka *"Fire Pearls" was a collection of love tanka that I submitted to before I became deeply engrained in #tanka. Pub'd in 2006

yawning at the end of my shift i've been on this way of Tanka since 2005 i believe #tanka

carrying a pocket-sized US constitution this morning biting into a warm sweet roll #tanka

placing pen and paper by my pillow i plan to write tanka the moment i open my eyes #tanka

Elder/Auntie/Mother Assata Shakur: I am late with my invocation. You were exceptionally clear-eyed about your work and position among Aunt Hagar's Children. I say your name. We say your name. We venerate you and call upon your impact. We venerate you as Ancestor. Please continue living in absentia.

Hé laba toumounn! (What's good everyone!) Learn Kouri-Vini (Louisiana Creole) with Cliford St Laurent—a savant with decades of experience as a translator and coach. Classes for all levels. Vyin aprenn Kouri-Vini shær! (Come learn Kouri-Vini, sha!)

My Moman's Mother, My Mémær, Bessie M. Préjean (nee Sinégal) on the L and a friend of hers on the R. circa late 1950s to mid-1960s.

the end of another week only an hour of sleep before this overnight shift #tanka

whiteness of a noon wall i reposition my sleepiness #senryu

Nouzòt té fé ça! Toumounn pasé in bon jounné é pasé in bèl finlasmènn! ❤️ /We made it! Everyone have a good day, and a beautiful weekend!/

stone Jesus in a cemetery barely look passing by #senryu

glassy eyes an impoverished woman passes by #senryu

burning candle lightly rubbing my bald spot #senryu

rustle of crinoline a girl in Civil Warm costume #senryu

slow jog passing an uninterested stone Virgin Mary #senryu

lonely jizo my night walk under his impassive eyes #senryu

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...Kèk bonœr matin lê zafær mo t'ap jonglé... (...some early morning things i was thinking...)

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sequence : five multiple orgasms morning rain and no hint of shame / in the dark in youth we touch we caress / fall morning awake making coffee scribbling a poem / sister congested deciding to remain in bed all day #senryu

sequence : four what's knotted up inside of you cool temperature arrives / Issa your insect friends annoying cold morning / out of the ghetto into political correctness / bring a candle a man with no direction no heart #senryu

experimenting with #senryu in 'running script.' shout out to Marlene Mountain for the idea. My: in his dark skin the blues Basho's: old pond a frog jumps into water sound MMountain: the maple just turning i fill my mouth with you

dim shape of a bird's nest, my home often foreign #senryu

sequence : three everywhere chaos—mums and weeds continue to flower empty lobby into the sound of my fingers on the keyboard playing house music something quite beautiful in being queer empty parking lot, this senryu world full of surprises #senryu

sequence : two in bed with another married man blushing amaryllis leaving dishes wet Jazz album on the old turntable 'what i write is senryu' his disappearing taillights smirk of an ex-lover hothouse orchids have no smell #senryu

thick cane syrup: english language one-line senryu #senryu

sequence : one feeling quiet patriotic i download a pocket US constitution * what freedoms are we losing each day air cooling now * the toxic rhetoric spewed ... people have become shells of themselves #tanka

burning trashfire along the road parked cars & silence #senryu

[Make-Believe] is it weird, that when im alone i sometimes pretend to be various people of either sex? home from work, as i light a candle; can't help but mimic Lady Macbeth wringing her hands full of blood. 'out damned spot' my apartment not big enough for my disappointments #senryu #ryubun

hydrangea night—often there are gaps in my memories #senryu

remembering the rocking-chair my younger self knew nothing #senryu

entering into depths of myself... senryu is born in that darkness #senryu

in a column of fire, creation - my bones exhale #senryu

you arrive i have a new understanding of darkness #senryu

his grievances with the name 'senryu' wildflowers don't seem so wild #senryu