harvest moon
a ball of fire rolls
over the shanties
starry night
a wooden boat packed
with migrants
human bodies
are found on the beach
foggy sky
people stand
in long lines at a food bank
winter sun
Sketchbook, 6:4, July/August 2011
Poetic Musings: Bloodied Man Haiku by Chen-ou Liu
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words,* CL: "first casualty of war"
the
bloodied
man
nailed to a wooden cross...