Rain patter . . .(3 tanka)

Three tanka published in one my very favorite journals.

GUSTS No. 28, Contemporary Tanka
(fall/winter 2018)

pounding rains

& the peonies are lost –

how did I miss

your pallor, your reticence

that last day?

turning from pale gold

to dusky violet

our last embrace

so certain

so final

rain patter

on windows –

just when it seems

the darkness is over

it all begins again