Ode To A Letter Opener
This poem started out as a senryu. But 17-syllables weren’t enough to say what I needed to say. So I added two 7-syllable lines, turning it into my first tanka:
Letter opener
Nearly cast aside as trash
Now my salvation,
Soothing, becalming the itch
That haunts my encasted arm.
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August 13th, 2008 at 1:58 am
I remember getting a letter opener as a gift some twenty years ago. You’ve now got me thinking about what happened to it…better check that loft ;-D