two migrants
from countries
an ocean apart . . .
speaking with cracked hands
that shape this wintry night
Atlas Poetica, 25, 2016
Reading More and Writing Better: Cocked Rifle Tanka
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*life is so good*
*why am I dying for this?*
on the hilltop
of the West Bank settlement
he mutters with a cocked rifle
Note: Ls 1&2 allude to the existen...