Bolts of Silk: tanka by M Kei

Friday, 24 August 2007

his heart
is a skeleton key
that unlocks doors
that should never
be opened

previously published in Fire Pearls, 2006

M. Kei, Maryland, USA

Crafty Green Poet said...: M Kei is a Poet, Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay
Editor, Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart
Moderator for Kyoka Mad Poems & Tanka Sequences; 12:01 pm
Mandy said...: I love it!; 3:37 pm
Deb said...: This tanka is perfect. I keep coming back to read it.; 2:44 pm