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: 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...