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colleen Poetry 11/07/2017A Call to Listen, Japan, soka-eki

 

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soka-eki

there is nothing poetic here
a language I cannot understand
faces I cannot read
ways I do not comprehend
only the cicadas I know
yet even their stinging ring
is alien to my ear.

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