she asks me
what is the color
of loneliness . . .
in the woman before me
I see a girl veiled in black
Hundred Gourds, 1:4,2012
A Room of My Own: Home, Sweet Home
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, XLI: "home"
boom, boom, boom
outside the steel safe room
with his ears covered
a boy sings,* If I had wings*
*l...