Published in LYNX A Journal for Linking Poets
THE RUMOROUS RAIN Sergio Oritz Puerto Rico Sonam Chhoki , Bhutan LYNX A Journal for Linking Poets with Symbiotic Poetry 29:1 Febuary, 2014 http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/271hmpg.html I have only posted my tanka since I don’t have the permission of the other poet. balancing the moon on my head... a gentle surf song under what I think is laughter each indiscretion passes through me like a gallstone. . . this urge to surface from my shadow in the blue time of a lilac there was a gap— I rubbed my eyes and thought, “she’s lost” alone in the moonlight a woman rakes in the shallows. . . her silence filled with gull cries the flowers of the city are death-like at times . . . my sorrow stems from a song full of lonely nights silence is rain with the sound turned down, echoes memories that die . . . life is nothing but a dream the concert room forged inside my bra