BALANCE SHEET (photo) & DRAFTING HER RESUME (dream tanka series) by Roswila

DRAFTING HER RESUME

it may all be long
gone but memories stalk her –
like gritty ashes
they resist wiping away
scraping as they go:

on one old job her
large black purse gets stolen
a single moment
of inattention and
the thief slips away with it

on another job
her boss resembles a man
from her present life
he, too, wants too much of her,
layering on the work

she rises to the
occasion on a favorite
temporary job
only to learn it’s not she they
want but another temp worker

at the last, she has
no skill nor inclination
to balance the books
but does her best as always
to do what the job requires


[five tanka on a series of dreams from 2-24-13. Photo “Balance Sheet” by Roswila]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO DREAMKU (& PHOTOS): The dream-based poems posted on this blog -- dreamku, tanka, two-liners, and monoku -- are offered in the spirit of collaboration. I have done my part. Now it’s your turn to jump in and see what comes up for you. I.e., there is no right or wrong way to understand or interpret any of these dream offerings. Even my own understandings of them change over time. And it gives me joy when a reader sees something in any of them that I have not.

For more in-depth exploration:

-- very brief comparison of dreamku and haiku: DREAMKU ARE NOT HAIKU

-- a brief post about both dreamku and my photos THE AREN'TS OF DREAMKU & ACCOMPANYING DIGITAL PHOTOS.

-- detailed three-part post about dreamku: "A DREAMKU PRIMER: Writing Haiku-Like Poems About Your Night Dreams": PART ONE: Introduction & Writing Dreamku as Dream Work; PART TWO: Elements of the Haiku Form Used in Dreamku; and PART THREE: How to Write Dreamku (the second and third parts have some overlap).

-- a short up-dating post about the three-part "A DREAMKU PRIMER" -- Important Up-date to A DREAMKU PRIMER....".

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‘til next time, keep dreaming,






If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”). Roswila's other blogs: ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.