March 2015
I have survived 30 years in Information Technology and am now retired. I live in Massachusetts with my wife and two cats. My tanka poetry has been published in many online and print journals. I won second place in the 2012 Tanka Society of America contest, and received an honorable mention in the 2014 contest.
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You in my arms You in my arms, the gentle surf of traffic... a morning one of us may think of some day years from now remembering the time when we had it all |
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an orange moon rises over the beach holding hands we see our shadows in a new light the cats looking puzzled as I enter… a deeper silence when you’re gone waking from one dream into another — the scent of your hair as you rest in my arms shivering together we search a cloudy sky for the moon… those clear summer nights I never even looked |
Credits: 'an orange moon' originally published in Ribbons 8.3; 'the cats' originally published in Bright Stars 3;
'shivering together' first published in Red Lights 9.1. Photos by Jan Slaughter.
©2015 Ken Slaughter