A Room of My Own: Worry-Free Life Tanka

a cargo ship

freed at last in the canal ...

this passage

to a worry-free life

blocked by my skin color

Added: One Hundred Ninety-Third Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

more variant cases

the wintry chill

in a raven's call 

Added: This Brave New World, I

outside the store

an Asian woman kicked

by white men ...

a security guard shakes his head

then closes the entrance door