at the end
of a long, shuffling line
outside
the welfare office
a boy holds his turtle
A Hundred Gourds, 2:3, June 2013
A Room of My Own: Promised Land Tanka
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*Re-Homing in the Maple Land*, XXXVIII
in this promised land
my immigrant life compressed
to hard working
and light sleeping between jobs ...
fresh morning...
