bruised peach
and her nana’s rabbit foot—
the child’s see-through backpack
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Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan is a PhD mathematician and data scientist who also writes poetry. His poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Atlanta Review, upstreet and on the Verse Daily website. He had a haiku published in tinywords in 2008.
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So sweet.
Oi!
.
see thru bag
either school
or at
work
America
bruised peach
really
nailed it
i didn’t
grow
up that
way
But now,
There are guns.
Again.
again.
a gain
Thank you for the reactions, Dawn and Darius!