prayer cards pinned
to a wall-sized map of the world . . .
a stony silence
among the voices
of foreign students
Bright Stars, V, 2014
A Room of My Own: Home, Sweet Home
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, XLI: "home"
boom, boom, boom
outside the steel safe room
with his ears covered
a boy sings,* If I had wings*
*l...