
Phone booth
a Brownie camera slung around her sweaty neck
telephone wires crisscross
you didn’t hear that did you? you did now didn’t you?
child in a burlap cape leaps through the garden
three wild hogs & a mild cat
black & white self-portraits in bathroom mirrors & bakery windows
sun burns skin off foreheads
history has had its way
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- Tags: Issue 22, Maw Shein Win, Myanmar, Poetry

