9/12/19: inspired by the 2019 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest Winners

fleeing civilians

and soon-abandoned streets

covered in ash

the first sunrise over

Ground Zero

inspired by “muddy foxhole…”
First Place winnerDorothy McLaughlin

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