the 13th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
Mr. Lou
your foreign credentials ...
pinned by his white gaze
I'm just another immigrant
with black slanted eyes
Atlas Poetica, 15, 2013
A Room of My Own: Normal Life, A Soap Bubble
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my friend turns
forty the age his father died
he mutters
*the Grim Reaper haunts me*
*like my walking shadow*
breaking news
at the first light of spring daw...