I plan to write
one thousand and one love poems
for you
yet in a cheap motel room
the power goes on and off
Sketchbook, 6:3, May/June 2011
A Room of My Own: Toy Forest Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, CC: "US-made bombs"
a toy forest
in his biscuit tin ...
the boy holds it tight
as US-made bombs drop
silencing ...