drone strike debate...
a girl declares 'Peace is the Way'
in sign language

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the teacher asks me
to write 'I will not...' ten times
plum petals drifting

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Smokey Mountain at dawn
a winding line of children
picks through the garbage

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casting no glances
at me
Time is a hectic traveller -
I've greyed
inside out

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his gravelly voice,
'all your feet flat on the floor...'
mosquitoes buzzing

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maple leaves drifting…
a missing girl poster peels
from the gray street-wall

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ten storefronts for sale -
Neighborhood Watch sign dangling
by a piece of wire

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the black cat she left
runs back and forth in my room -
a whirl of snowflakes

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3 am
I wake to a thump
in the attic
where ghosts of the past
hold their pow-wow

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Mo Yan (Don't Speak) writes
in moonlight carved from sorghum
it's true, and yet...

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