The hawk soars above in the blue sky, like my soul,but earthbound I stay, unable to spiral up, weighted by my own choices.
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Tanka Journal poet
Deborah Davitt
6 poems in Issue 3, Issue 4, Issue 5, Issue 7
In their own words
Deborah L. Davitt grew up in Reno, Nevada, but received her MA in English at Penn State University, where she taught rhetoric and composition before becoming a technical writer in fields including as nuclear submarines, NASA, and computer manufacturing. She currently live in Houston, Texas, with her husband and son. She's been nominated for two Rhysling awards, and her poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Dreams & Nightmares, Silver Blade, Snakeskin, Blue Monday Review, Grievous Angel, Poetry Quarterly, The Tanka Journal, Inwood, Indiana, Scifaikuest, and Three-Line Poetry, among others. Her short fiction has been featured in Intergalactic Medicine Show, with stories pending in 2017 with Compelling Science Fiction, The Fantasist, and Altered Europa, and she has four self-published novels available at Amazon: The Saga of Edda-Earth.
A comet plunges across the gulf of space-time,breathing frost behind; once portent of death and war, now life-bringer, seed-bearer.
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My dad called his suitmarrying-and-burying;he didn't wear it when I wed, and hospitals don't allow such dignity.
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The crow on the fence croaks, its voice ungentle, harsh;swallows carrion. Yet there is beauty in its necessity, and its strength.
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The sepia pastrushes toward chrome futures;the present's a blur,between red-shift memoryand violet dawn's approach.
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Crinkled paper heart, pressed in a childhood albumwords misty with years— a human heart strains, afraid of what might have, could have been.
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