tanka 0028
Separated loversmeet by chance for the first timein fifty-two years.
august 11, 2024
"I thought you were dead," she says.
"I was," he smiles. "I was."
notes
I stray here from my usual style of using all lower case except for proper nouns, because it felt right. The top of the tanka is a properly formed sentence, and the bottom is dialogue, so I like my use of proper grammatical form here.
This tanka was based on this photo from Pixabay, which was posted in the Falcon & Acorn Mighty Network in the Creating Daily circle.
