Sonic Boom Issue 2 (tanka)

icicles
stabbing the pavement—
I tell him
his cancer is back
as if I feel nothing

***

daffodils
brim over the edges
of my dream . . .
how I long to know
if he's waiting for me

***

drowning
my fears
in the sound
of the garbage disposal—
death rattle

O'Words Anthology

     The contributor's copy of O'Words Anthology I received last May.This is compiled and edited by Sasha Kasoff as a semester project at University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. Find it on Goodreads here.