Harumi Taniguchi

Los Angeles, California

Forgotten

Across the plains
Where the sky seems low,
Dust blows in sheets
Across two mounds.

Tattooed, pinpoint
Beads of sand
Whiplash the epithets.

Unclaimed and forgotten
A decade or more,
Two prairie flowers
Unnamed.

Over two mounds
Where the sky seems low,
Dust blows in sheets;
Tumble weeds roll.
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