A Room of My Own: The Golden Dream

Trump Empire, Inc, L

summer moonlight 

lapping against the shore ...

a dinghy adrift

the razor wire glints

with the first light of dawn 

detention center

a Cuban boy's stare

McDonald's arch in a corner 

of his cell window 

dust motes

in a slant of moonlight ...

this drifting life

Added:

sleepless again ...

dusting shelf after shelf

of unread books

Added:

lovers' quarrel

a downy woodpecker

stops drilling

Added:

summer outhouse

the bare light bulb sticky

with bugs

Added: Yellowing Memories, VII

the Perseids peak ...

the lives I dreamed in my teens 

but never lived

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trumping up 

one crime emergency

after another ...

the Convicted Felon 

finger-guns to the cameras

Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXV: "a journalist murdered"

his eyes open

and his bullet-riddled helmet

marked Press ...

heavy footfalls echoing

in the smoky twilight

FYI: Haaretz, August 12: Israel's Targeting of Palestinian Reporters in Gaza Isn't Collateral Damage. It's Strategy

Anas al-Sharif, a well-known Al Jazeera correspondent, was killed this week in an Israeli airstrike. The intention is clear: If you silence the witnesses, you can reshape history