Melanin Made Dreams

A Poem

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He is temptation
to my trying, tangled tongue
it runs in circles
looking to bind skin dripping
inside melanin made dreams.

Tanka, Temptation

5–7–5–7–7

Thanks to Tre L. Loadholt and the Challenge of tackling the Tanka poetic form by a temptation means for the subject to be pursued.

Writers: A Challenge