[Teeming With Koi] tanka set

 [Teeming With Koi] a tanka set

side pool 

teeming with koi 

chocolate woman 

in a yellow dress

indeisive...indecisive

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on the counter

*maman's sewing sissors 

Johnny is now 

thirty-nine years old and 

touched by war

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now dead

all of maman's hatred

a shadow festooned 

over kids, grands

and great grands