your prayer beads

your prayer beads – a tanka

the old monk
hands me your prayer beads
"she won't need this," he says

I look at your silent lips

and wonder what use have I?

 

 

 

stork
 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[TLK]

At first I thought that 'stork' was a last syllable for the poem, and I wondered if I misremembered what a tanka was.