with my mouth taped:
don't stain my poems,
Blueline and Red Thread,
with your snow-white kiss
Blueline and Red Thread, 2015
Note: This is the title tanka of the first collection of
sociopolitical tanka, Blueline and Red Thread. and it's dedicated
to Krzysztof Kieślowski, film director of The Three Colors Trilogy (the collective title of three films, Blue, White, and Red,
loosely based on one of the three political ideals in the motto of the
French Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity)
