years of labor
etched on grandma’s face
by firelight
she refuses to tell
the story of her birth
Atlas Poetica, 37, 2019
A Room of My Own: Butterfly Kite Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, LVIII "Rafah's border wall"
the kids stare
beyond Rafah's border wall
the slow descent
of a butterfly kite
seve...
