I need my living room

In preparation for having the balcony painted, I bring everything into my apartment.

after a day of having
the bicycle in the kitchen
I decide
to donate it
last bicycle ride

I move plastic storage bins and lawn items into the living room.

stone lantern
and stone cat
on the coffee table
my new conversation
pieces

Andrew Shattuck McBride

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This was my attempt at what’s called “tanka prose.” Tanka prose is prose with tanka, Japanese-style five-line poems normally of 31 syllables or less (I didn’t count!).

This was my August 31, 2012 poem for the postcard poetry project. I used an antique card view of an Orca (“Killer Whale”) off the Washington State coast. I mailed the card to Jan of Vancouver, Washington.

Blessings to Jan and all, Andy