three words uttered
then an awkward silence
between us...
the woodpecker's knock
echoing through the forest
German Translation by Tony Böhle
drei Worte
und dann ein betretenes
Schweigen zwischen uns…
das Klopfen des Spechts
hallt durch die Bäume
Featured Poet, Einunddreissig, November 2015
A Room of My Own: Freedom and Mass Graves Tanka
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, LV: "mass graves"
hosting Passover
the festival of freedom ...
a neighbor's TV
blasts news of the mass graves
f...