Today is Frida Kahlo's birthday.

open hearts
decorating their dresses
the two fridas
connected by
an artery of pain

the tiger lilies
grouped together
beside the road
as if they were about to sing
but thought better of it


I could not salvage the tanka I posted earlier.

on a torn out page
of blue ocean
the smile
of a child's ship
with its number 4 sail