Issue 3 - December 2025 - Tanka prose 2

  

                          rainbow: the seventh vision

rain falls, as it has always fallen, on a world that is waiting in grey: when it ceases, a stone silence remains: I read 'The Book of Revelation', and a white sun appears: light lightens, the sky brightens with history, the history of the gull: our postman arrives on a corner of time, a son of the morning: he could be winged – a messenger – a messenger carried on the breeze by momentum, walking the skin of the earth: the seventh vision this is, a parable, and he emerges now from rumour: rain is the shadow of light, and it falls, as it has always fallen:

                                a light shower
                                a shower of light
                                the postman
                                puts a rainbow
                                through our letter-box



AA Marcoff



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