cocktail hour
the sting of lime juice
on a split knuckle
pink hibiscus
demanding afternoon
rum drinks
stacked notebooks
compulsively purchased
awaiting
ideas
calling mom
on new years …
pouring another
rereading montaigne
… quiet joy in a mind
at play
wine glasses
scrubbed clean
my mind drips dry
cooling tea
and dog eared pages
– nightly rhythm
B.A. France is a writer and poet who lives and works in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. His work has been published in numerous journals including Akitsu Quarterly, Modern Haiku, cattails, Last Leaves, and Shot Glass Journal. His chapbook of tanka and haibun Season’s End was published in 2021 by Alabaster Leaves, an imprint of Kelsay Books. He co-authored the e-chapbook Retweets with Orrin PréJean, which is available for free download in the Haiku Foundation Digital Library. He can be found online at his website bafrance.ucraft.site and on Twitter @B_A_France.
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