Tanka Series 15

1.

email notice
at the end of Mass
her student loans
won't
be forgiven


2.

discussing race
in the age
of post-blackness
crows pulling hard
at gristle


3.

nightly news
a blur of good
and evil...
an owl's cry settles
in the marsh


4.

after the rally
against drone war
a woodpecker
listens
for beetles