the opening tanka of my new tanka sequence, "Nothing Less Real Than Reality, " written in response to the new Reality Show produced by the White House
Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that MAGA hat wearers get at the Real Meaning of things.
-paraphrasing my favourite artist, Georgia O'Keeffe
I
the president
claims, "we have already won..."
a stray dog
in the lamppost shadow
answering another
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
how do you know the birth in the year of the chinnnnss zods