waking alone
from the talk with the girl
I met
in childhood dreams
church bells echo from afar
chants
of the ninety-nine percent
echo from afar --
counting winter stars
in my attic window
being a poet
how do you put food
on the table?
her words echo from afar
breaking this moonlit night
Red Lights, 9:2, July 2013
A Room of My Own: Freedom and Mass Graves Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, LV: "mass graves"
hosting Passover
the festival of freedom ...
a neighbor's TV
blasts news of the mass graves
f...