Karina Klesko

A Breach of Light

 I am

so many of the tricks of time that develop attached affections 
tucked away in a locked heart
 no one can look into without permission 

the survivor

 now remembering the past through senses walking barefoot in sandy dunes after a light rain  how it squished between toes the scent of sun through an open window echos of childhood laughter and voices in a midday breeze my first kiss sweet cherry blossoms gone now that five o’clock whistle of the train every week day just beyond the golding of a distant wheatfield ducks seasoning the last days of an indigo summer in holy silence a distant bolt of light splits darkness that moment we fell out of love…

 of my imaginings

the flight of seagulls     fanning their wings     from cloud to cloud
dissonant thoughts dissolve     into autumn rain

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About the Author

Karina Klesko resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has been writing most of her life. In addition to writing children’s books and Christian bible study plans, she writes rengay, tanka, renga, renku, cinquains, zipped haiku and renga, crystallines, haibun, and creates haiga. She also works with young children developing haiku learning exercises.

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