dark work tanka

briar worms for boys
nab schoolfellows at dark work:
hide-and-seek with ICE
truncheon and tear gas hopscotch
window baton candy crush

(y’all come back now, ya hear!)

What I’m Reading:

The violent confrontation that Trump craves most is the war at home, against the enemy within . . . Next Tuesday will mark one year since he returned to office. Trump may have started out by trash-talking America; now he is simply trashing it. Minnesota is his legacy. It is American carnage made real.

— Susan Glasser / “The Minnesota War Zone Is Trump’s Most Trumpian Accomplishment” / The New Yorker