Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Masked Nun in White Tanka

One Hundred Eighty-Eighth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
written in response to "In Myanmar Protests, Women Are on the Front Lines" (Hannah Beech, The New York Time, March 4) 

smoky twilight ...
between a police phalanx
and rows of men
with their three-finger salutes
a masked nun in white

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