she finger-writes
those three words on my chest . . .
the sting
of the promise
my ex failed to keep
Atlas Poetica, 24, 2016
Reading More and Writing Better: Yawp of "USA!" Tanka by Chen-ou Liu
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a lament for Walt Whitman's America
to cameras
*no, more wars! *the chant
echoes, echoing
around the Congress chamber
swelled with the yawp of *USA!*
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