Surgical Center
Reduction of the
Proximal phalange on the
Left hand’s fifth finger
Percutaneous pinning
What’s your name and date of birth?
Category: art
Daily Tanka: Lorde
Lorde
Lorde’s “Melodrama”
Is a riveting album
In my head I hear
The music’s many strange sounds
Almost more than the lyrics
Daily Tanka: Country Kids
Country Kids
Hearing the bats crack
After the ball flies away
I recall making
Plans with my friends by yelling
Across the marsh – country kids
Daily Tanka: Birdbath
Birdbath
Entropy afflicts
Our birdbath, which attracts filth
Arboreal and
Avian but is cleaned out
By a summer thunderstorm
Daily Tanka: Liberal Arts Sounds
Liberal Arts Sounds
Backhoes groan, scraping
Songbirds whistle, flickering
Crows shriek, circling
Locomotives blast, blocking
Work trucks beep, esrevering
Daily Tanka: Plein Air
Plein Air
A hole in the clouds
Lets dusklight paint the cornfield
A tassle yellow
The hole closes and the field
Turns back to a husky green
Daily Tanka: New Bike Race
New Bike Race
Let’s race the new bike
Bang out a solid five laps
When my legs blow up,
Cruise the last lap, enjoying
The trees, the trail, and the bike
Daily Tanka: Lower Upper Midwest
Lower Upper Midwest
A cool, steady breeze
Betrays the high summer sun
Northfield, not da Yoop
A green lawn, not a stone beach
A corn sea, not the Big Lake
Daily Tanka: Construction Season II
Construction Season II
Without the chatter
Of the strolling customers,
Campus resounds with
The cheerfully annoying
Chirps of trucks going backwards
Daily Tanka: Construction Season I
Construction Season
The school year over,
Orange safety fencing now walls
The vacant sidewalks
And construction vehicles
Invade the empty green quads
Daily Tanka: No Email
No Email
If I receive no
Email all day, have I worked?
I’ve checked off many
To-dos, so I think I’ll keep
My knowledge-worker license
Daily Tanka: Aches and Pains
Aches and Pains
The physical pain
Of the day after the day
After a big race
Helps the body remember
It’s aliver than it was
Daily Tanka: Not Reading
Not Reading
New-to-me McPhee
On engrossingly strange work
I set it aside
After just a few pages
So that it will last longer
Daily Tanka: Woods
Woods
The leaf-filtered sun
Heightens the scent of rampant
Photosynthesis
Red deadfall and white birchbark
Leap from the green to the eye
Daily Tanka: Cheq Checklist
Cheq Checklist
Old school, flow, man-made
Off camber, bench cut, boardwalk
Bridge, jump, rock garden
Hairpin, buttonhook, sweeper
Logover, rockover, berm