Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

this crazy traffic  in my life the pain I'm driving through I'm down,  down, down

out at sea last wind  in my sails... the hardest  place to live  is by your side

bitter bullies whose intimidation is as swift as a goose  step in a fascist funeral Social bullying, sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships. Social bullying includes: . 1.Leaving someone out on purpose 2.Telling others not to be friends with someone 3.Spreading rumors about someone 4.Embarrassing someone in public

untamed winds remorseful waters outlawed spirits... fashion's  racial divide

I fall  into deep thought in a restaurant  without customers... a war of nerves

my heart a flickering neon light about to break… the fear of a spiraling mind

your hands on my hips summer heartbeat

settling wings you're my favorite kind  of grey... I was fractured beyond my imagination

I live without tears  have no path out of hell  exist in pain...  when everything turns black  I follow like a tracker

there are men in this world who bid you to come you tell them:  Show Me they say:  Take My Hand

once he slapped me, that was my past-- now fire is my future… nights disappear like blemishes 

I bit him with the scent of juniper on my lips he bit me back but never claimed me as his own

wisteria, the murmur and sigh of a tree… when I was little was I a ghost?

Creation I met you by the river among the dead-- let me call you lover, listen to the sea behind me call me brother regard the tides that expose me nightly-- disguise my shadow from sandpipers that eat dead fish

I have a longing for darkness and aimlessly moving scenes... misplaced memories flood these long winter nights

we played in a athenaeum of sunflowers... before rain brought down the winter sky

trees rattle I count the stars in  the winter sky... the hours, matrons reading  my lips, watch my thighs

time is nothing but a souvenir worn smooth... a photograph of me walking in an alien body

http://undertowtankareview.blogspot.com/2015/01/submission-for-issue-5-undertow-tanka.html Kindly submit up to 10 previously unpublished tanka, tanka art, &/or 10 tanka sequence,  10 haiku. “Undertow Tanka Submission” to: undertowtanka @ gmail . com Or use Contact Form to the right *** by MARCH 23, 2015 / 5 th     Issue to be online by MARCH 30, 2015 At the end of your submission, please include your full name and country of residence. All rights revert to authors upon publication. Your tanka must not be under consideration elsewhere or submitted to any contest. Hopefully this will become a print Review in the near future. We accept submissions year-round.   *** Yes, we are accepting Haiku submissions Best wishes, Sergio Ortiz, Editor

last dream  before waking... morning fog