born in ELA barrios I live in a world of dualities in my tight skirt and sweater I can cha cha ‘n hully gully down but I don’t know who I am I peroxide my black hair red rat it high, rat it high pierce my ears with catholic cross orale pues-sansei Buddha- head becomeContinue reading “Orale Pues~~Tanka”
Category Archives: humor
First time~~haiku
raw oystersshe remembers herfirst time Genie Nakano
First Rain
Raindrops . . . Embryos of life flowing from the sky. . . Implanting into Earth’s womb. Earth is ecstatic today . . . Twins bounce, triplets play, quadruplets march in 4/4 time Faster and faster until we cannot count the meter. . . Oh, Heaven and Earth unite today. . . Marry and penetrateContinue reading “First Rain”
He came in an autumn wind and stayed
This is my man through crashes and bashes drama and flight it hasn’t always been a delight but somehow, we make it shake it and bake it I have no books no rules of the game I’m a child from a broken home I’m a dreamer who watched the silver screens no one told meContinue reading “He came in an autumn wind and stayed”
The Revenge of the Flan~~Poetry
She is different than us….
Wings~~Tanka/Prose
Angel man
keep growing those wings
together…
we’ll fly out of here.
single tanka published in Spillwords, 2020
Cats Love~~Haiku
Cats love in the heat of the night another fight Genie Nakano, August 21, 2021
Lick me
Read me like a story lick me like a stamp… send me to heaven Genie Nakano, 8.19.21
Forced~~tanka
Today I forced the morning glory up the trellis– to be or not to be. Genie Nakano, August 18, 2021
solid~~haiku
My Dad’s room all the furniture solid oak. Genie Nakano, 2019