A Room of My Own: A Crown of Thorns Tanka

This Brave New World, II

written on Easter Sunday

I close my heart

to this snow-on-snow world

of anti-Asian hate ...

in the corner of my mind

the man with a crown of thorns

Added: This Brave New World, III

Jesus Paid It All

drifting from the white church ...

on the street corner

an old Asian-looking man

wears a crown of thorns

FYI: We essentially have White evangelicals, somewhere around 8 in 10, supporting the president, standing by their candidate, standing by their man...

-- excerpted from "2020 Faith Vote Reflects 2016 Patterns," NPR, November 8,2020

Added: This Brave New World, IV

in the bullseye

Chinatown's stone lions ...

twilight chill

Note: The following is the first entry of my new poetry diary, This Brave New World:

outside the store

an Asian woman kicked

by white men ...

a security guard shakes his head

then closes the entrance door

NeverEnding Story, March 30 2021