red
finches cluster
greedily
at the feeder
crows
raid their nestlings
the
sun moves from east to west
rivers
run down to the sea
--Patrick Mizelle
my body melts
spilling enslaved hearts
like burning wax golden Buddhas
kicked over
by black boots
--Morgan zo Callahan
with three bows to
twenty-year-old high school student Ksering Kyi, the twenty-fourth Tibetan to
die by self-immolation in 2011. This poem has also been selected to appear in
Atlas Poetica 12.
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