Strange Bed - this is an ekphrastic blend of haibun [prose+haiku] and Tanka Story [prose+tanka] also called "tanka prose", published by The British Haiku Society

Strange Bed 

Pulling clothes off each other
            we crawl up the stairs of your parents’ home.

   
bed, vt:
to have sexual intercourse with somebody (informal). 

A transitive verb is an action that requires one or more objects

our clouds of breath

the river bank reveals

its water vole

Already the final act is begun, squared up, and oblonged.
This small rectangle of a room in a room; we play our dance card.

this waiting room

of ladders

I run to the sky

so every bell rings out

with your musk

bed, noun:
a rectangular state of sexual intimacy associated with being in bed with somebody. 

noun (from Latin nōmen, literally meaning “name”)

the bee hotel

a solitary walk inside

my numbered cells

Linguistically, a noun is a member of a large, open part of speech whose members can occur as the main word in the object of a verb, or object of a proposition.

sticker book…

I peel away your edge

of the galaxy

We begin our syllabary of death and sex on this raised platform,
a simple structure that serves as a base for keeping things simple and above ground.

buddleia

the rain opening

                and closing its proboscis

bed, early, meaning:
important development lifting straw piles off the ground to avoid drafts, dirt, and certain pests. 

the greenness

of new songs into blue

streaming out of clouds

I see the way ahead

is a yellow brick road

Strange Bed © Alan Summers 2017


Haibun/Tanka Story 

Note:

Ekphrastic treatment of ’Strange Bed’ by David Cobley
oil on linen 12x12in (30.5 x 30.5cm)

Publication Credit:

Blithe Spirit (Journal of the British Haiku Society)

Vol. 27 no. 1 (February 2017)

See: http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/journal/

Deliberate typos and dodgy definitions by Alan Summers

Strange Bed by David Cobley:

David Cobley: http://www.bsartists.co.uk/artists/david_cobley/davidcobleythumbs.htm

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