the 15th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
their coarse voices
Wow! Chinaman s-peak-s En-gli-sh
amplified
by a room of silence
... my Bruce Lee kick in the air
Atlas Poetica, 15, 2013
NeverEnding Story: Call for Haiku Submissions
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My Dear Poet Friends:
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, "*poetry
is called upon to be something more than a thing of beaut*...