EROTIC TANKA

wiping off my lipstick
i taste your mouth...
will you long for me tonight
when you are as distant
as the milky way?

Pamela A. Babusci
First published in American Tanka Fall 1997


i am as restless as the wind
while you sleep
like a floating waterlily...
how i pine for the return
of your affection

Pamela A. Babusci
First published in American Tanka Spring 1999


your
suffocating love--
between the sheets
i can't get close
enough

Pamela A. Babusci
First published in American Tanka Spring 2002


staining
watercolor paper
with hibiscus tea
that night when our
blood flowed together

Pamela A. Babusci
First published in American Tanka Issue 15/16 2006