reading between the lives and writing between the lines, LXXXIII
Beijingers, young and old
stroll along Tiananmen Square
[everything's just fine]
my recurring dream, this sound
of rolling tanks and rifle fire
FYI: The New Yorker, June 2: The Shadow of Tiananmen Falls on Hong Kong
The anniversary of the massacre coincides with verdicts in the trial of the pro-democracy activists known as the Hong Kong 47.
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXVI: "shrapnel scars"
calm between fireballs
a boy fingers
his shrapnel scars
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXVII: "Rafah Crossing"
Rafah Crossing
a girl stares
at the borderless sky
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXVIII: "Kibbutzim"
home, sweet home!
each window has a vista
of a blue horizon ...
the half-collapsed billboard
near the gate of Kibbutz Liman
FYI: This tanka is a sequel/poetic response to the following entry:
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, XXII: "punitive house demolition"
bulldozed house
now a bundle of belongings
on the bent back
of a Palestinian man ...
in his mind's eye re-homing
