pathos is the skyward tanka

by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

a mother swathed in muslin

scavenging, rubble

behind the sea of biscay

a burned down house on a mound

a bargain respect, absent

what was us, what was sweet home

lost to an ornery sound

shanks pressed into the pallid

how they grieve even –

in flight, there’s nothing

no coast, of drift, remembrance

so she writes because

she forgets what she puts down

rope and field of lies

rising flames, a white refrain

driftpin verse forms miscreant

as if resting on water –

a sail, ascension

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Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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