POEM: "After a Tanka by Rosemary Nissen-Wade"

After a Tanka by Rosemary Nissen-Wade


I talk to the one
you were which

comes back to me
conversing as if

he were doomed
or blessed. The cup

finally full of need
Lord, but we have to

talk again as lovers
like it was our food.

© 2012 Rob Schackne