she drinks her coffee
cold and bitter
a wince of displeasure
the wrench of her mouth
as she says affair

first published in Simply Haiku

Comments

[Curtis]

The caesura at the end of line three sets the second half of the poem up nicely. An excellent tanka!

[janet]

i like this tanka, as i'd mentioned to you earlier when I'd seen it in SH. there's a very good pace and collection of "sounds" (the c's and w's and r's, etc.) in this poem.

[aurora]

Thanks, Curtis and Janet.