first night
of deportation ...
a child
looking at the grass
covered with frost
Cattails, April 2017
Reading More and Writing Better: Mockingbird's Song Tanka by Chen-ou Liu
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written for *Harper Lee’s 100th birthday*
I climb inside
my MAGA neighbor's head
to see his world ...
a mockingbird's song snaps
in two through half-sleep
...
