Another hot night: January Tanka 2010

tap tap tap tap tap
silence in the library
is not as it was
I liked the old reading room
with the great dome, in Melbourne

still I must be glad
for the computer access
which serves the whole world
and me, creating tanka
tap tap tap tap tap tap tap

5/1/10


warm night
poetry and chocolate
before bed
I don’t shower
liking my skin smell

12/12/10


the weather cools
and there's a scent of rain
the injured cat
starts eyeing the outdoors
still forbidden to him

19/1/10


another hot night
after the one-blanket chill
of early morning
bare feet and sarong all day
and the fan still blowing hard

21/1/10


the DVD works
we’ve sorted which desk is whose
where to feed the cats
and how we can beat the heat —
home begins to shape itself

26/1/10