in summer heat
the War on Drugs banner
fluttering . . .
Ride of the Valkyries
blares from police speakers
Bright Stars, II, April 2014
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...