Footnote: Observation At Breakfast

Autumn's dismal sky,

cloudy and leaden, darkens

the tea in my cup;

tea not, this morning, limpid;

even its steam---insipid.


Kyakuchuu


Author's Notes/Comments: 

I know that rhyme is mostly avoided, or even forbidden, in Haiku and Tanka.  I have respected those rules in most of my Tanka (I have no idea how many are in the Footnote series), so perhaps that may allow me to bend a rule here and there.

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