in looming darkness
thoughts once abandoned
plague this worried soul
nothing is as it seems
haunted by my past

This gogyohka is my response to  Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry
Challenge No. 244 #Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt,
with the art provided by Merril D. Smith.

Image source: Free Library of Philadelphia – Visitor to Germantown by Benton Spruance
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