Music opens my biosphere
and unheard of ghosts
come and go as they please
singing,
dance me to the end of love,
but I can’t.
The insults, the injuries made
are unsafe halfway houses of terror,
where naked orange clowns
grow balls, and file their nails.
The world ceases to spin
under their wet boots
and it rains
all over
my margins.
Sergio A. Ortiz: He is the founding editor of Undertow Tanka Review. His collections of Tanka, For the Men to Come (2014), and From Life to Life (2014) were released by Amazon. He’s a two time Pushcart nominee and a four time Best of the Web nominee. His poems have been published in over four hundred journals and anthologies.