the 8th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
my English words
nothing's wrong, I'm fine
slip into
our phone conversation...
Mother's ocean-wide silence
Atlas Poetica, 15, 2013
A Room of My Own: The Longest Yet the Shortest Night
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*Trump Empire, Inc.*, III:
*once upon a time*
*Rome was a Republic ...*
my teacher laments
gazing at the White House
in the gathering dark
*the dumb, no,*
...
