Showing posts with label understudy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label understudy. Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2016

Lucid Lines (Tanka)


soft edges dream state
pretending you are the star
behind the curtains
your understudies perform
the lead in reality





Image of painting by Edgar Degas, Four Ballerinas on stage (c.1885-90) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Doom and Bloom

And we wake up  to a new day, the world crumbling around us. We try to put the pieces together, nothing makes sense- or fits- and yet everyt...