our initials
on the childhood tree
now faded --
her last words sharpened
by a winter wind
Atlas Poetica, 37, 2019
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 ...
