afternoon sunbeams
filter through venetian blinds
in zigzagging lines . . .         
these procrastinations
first I'll do this---no that

making up words               
from overturned letters     
in Scrabble . . .
I wonder is this where
my tanka will come from?

Mary Franklin has tanka published in Gusts, Eucalypts, Ribbons and Simply Haiku.  She lives in Vancouver, BC