Gary Blankenship
Sunstroke, Sorrow
(For the victims of Rwanda, Sudan, et al)
Where rain rarely falls,
survivors raise toddlers;
Where the sky burns dirt,
tearful wives stir brown rice.
When the children laugh,
memories of bad days;
when their parents pray,
flash of machetes seen.
round XI, poem 19, 28 January 2006
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Gary Blankenship
is
a retired manager who dabbles in poetry and
publishing.
He is CEO of Santiam Publishing and publishes the online journals,
MindFire
Renewed and FireWeed, both at
www.mindfirerenew.com.
Gary has been published on the web and in a variety
of paper
publications, including in the Tanka
Journal of
Japan 2005 anthology
and The
Tanka Society of America
newsletter.
Email: Gary Blankenship |
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