02/26/2010
Sam Cheuk
Tanka

Beneath two arches
a straight line,
scrawled into the child’s
blue imagination
the prison shape for bird.

BIO:

Sam Cheuk holds an MFA in creative writing from NYU. His first collection, Love Figures, will be published by Insomniac Press in 2011.
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