Aurora

( a Rensaku = linked Tanka )
 
stalking lesser paths
hello dear boy I’ve missed you
stretching shadow’s cast
 
do you see me in my pale
while all around is somber
 
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look the playful flare
the iridescent iris
it covers for my sorrow
 
to never mind the lovelorn
I stack their dead like cordwood
 
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here your kind afloat
tho’ you’re so diff’rent aren’t you
you know where I’m from
 
I slither down the river
while regaling the night sky
 
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forsaken by sin
the colors of the rainbow
too few too many
 
air-brushed into Aurora
this is what God has left you