I just learned last night of the death in November of Sharon Mann, a wonderful artist and bright spirit, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2019.
You can find her magical art and words here.
black dreams beat away sleep
with raw beauty beyond recall
what language uses shadows
to whisper why to ask
the moonlight to show who
sings the lost wind soaring
through the still blue time
of aftering
a river of light
captured by the air, turning,
spinning outside in—
uncontained by outlines–this
arc of souls with wings sailing
A tanka for Frank Tassone’s Milky Way Haikai Challenge.
The Milky Way is, mythologically speaking, a roadway built by the gods linking heaven and earth–souls and birds use it for traveling between the two worlds.
Just so.
Linked also to Open Link Night at dVerse.
K. 