Father wagging
his "obey me" finger
at ten-year-old me
in a dream, I climb
the ladder to the moon
Its own place: a mindscape of tanka, 2018
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
...
