Strawberry
Your skin is stubble
which leaves a granular wake
but your belly smooth
and white when sliced open and
heart-shaped bites shout love and Spring.
Katherine Barham
Rose Valley
This poem is a tanka, a Japanese five-line form. In a tanka, line one has five syllables; line two has seven syllables; line three has five syllables; and lines four and five have seven syllables each.
