A Distant Planet -tanka sequence
A Distant Planet "and there, beside The thundering waterfall of his heart, I rubbed my eyes and thought, “I’m lost."” Rafael Campo I said, it's like lifting a cello out of its case — "but what do I know of love's lonely offices"* he said, I'm Positive, so I chanted the painted shaman's sweaty curse I'd look inside his throat to see the misery of the world, he'd spot his cock and think of sin ~~~~ * Robert Hayden