Mark Osaki Poems

Let’s pretend that fulfillment
is just another dress
that I can compliment.
Easy discretion that allows
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For awhile I too was haunted by
memories of your frightened faces
as we hovered nearby, shooting
warning tracers above your heads.
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for Cindy Kawahata
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In the photo my mother is twenty years old.
She is leaning against the railing
of a shoddily built prison barrack
wondering if the climate
...