This Brave New World, II
written on Easter Sunday
I close my heart
to this snow-on-snow world
of Anti-Asian Hate ...
in the corner of my mind
the man with a crown of thorns
Added: This Brave New World, III
Jesus Paid It All
drifting from the white church ...
on the street corner
an old Asian-looking man
wears a crown of thorns
FYI: We essentially have White evangelicals, somewhere around 8 in 10, supporting the president, standing by their candidate, standing by their man...
-- excerpted from "2020 Faith Vote Reflects 2016 Patterns," NPR, November 8,2020
Added: This Brave New World, IV
in the bullseye
Chinatown's stone lions ...
twilight chill
Note: The following is the first entry of my new poetry diary, This Brave New World:
outside the store
an Asian woman kicked
by white men ...
a security guard shakes his head
then closes the entrance door
