high noon sunlight
beats down on this rooming house...
the migrant
with a gap-toothed smile
says, I'm learning Inglish
Blueline and Red Thread, 2015
A Room of My Own: Bitter Sting Tanka
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Two Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
the bitter sting
of late night black coffee ...
quarantined
for weeks without thoughts
of touc...
