To the Melancholy Poet
Your optimism
will lead to great comfort claims
unfurled paper pearl
formerly housed in fortune
cookie, now crumbled, eaten.
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Your optimism
will lead to great comfort claims
unfurled paper pearl
formerly housed in fortune
cookie, now crumbled, eaten.
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This is a really cool tanka! And I love the description of the little fortune slip as a “paper pearl.”
Love this!
Simple and profound! Great work!
Gorgeous and concise–love ‘paper pearl”