37

I have some questions
about when to ask questions
questions on questions
I like to let people feel
free to answer what's not asked

Tanka For a Friend

I ask how you are

I know you know I mean it

Because we are friends

And because you told me so

Even before you used words

35

Last night I dreamt of
grandma and grandpa again
and their apartment.
Maybe it's because my place
always reminds me of them.

34

I'd put on a show
using my neighbor's house light
Pictures on the wall.
It ran for years, rave reviews
Sponsored by the Rosenbergs

33

I'm at the Kotel
22 forward and back
and I'm there for good
And now here I am. Here. Now.
I'm 52 and sleepless.

32

There's wisdom and pain
you can compartmentalize
but the pain must be
if the wisdom is for real
there's no way to not have pain

31

Built into my view
was the allowance for him
to be who he was
or so I like to pretend
but we each judge the other