belle de nuit by Diane Dehler

belle de nuit

droop their petaled heads

moonbathing

In long perfumed hours

of a languid night

Diane Dehler

First published in Moonbathing: a journal of women’s tanka, issue 8 Spring/Summer 2013

tanka by Diane Dehler

Just the dark smoke
of 100 torched gold
chrysanthemums
I bow to you Autumn
enter a season of grief