Tanka for a Killdeer
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1 min readNov 24, 2019
You do not fool me
With your broken-winged pretense.
I see your babies!
Not to worry! They are safe.
I’ll pretend I do not see.
Written in response to a prompt (“broken-winged”) by Shaan Sood.
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Essays, poems, and short stories about awareness, understanding, and love