John Samuel Tieman: Family Plot

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History of Poetry

this afternoon’s brief
history of poetry —
I take out the trash
a hungry robin I know
sings for her dinner raisin

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Family Plot

sis and I search for
ancestors we know – we find
sis’ prepaid headstone
(1936 – )
we debate where I will go

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Saigon Tanka

forty years later
after the Fall of Saigon
a jay calls a jay
a veteran weeds his yard
of all the small bones of time

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copyright 2015 John Samuel Tieman