“Daily Exercise”, “America”, “I Tell My Children”
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daily
exercise (haiku)
my morning poems
have begun to sound like Tweets
fragments of bird song
America
we
best reflect
the
spaces between us
when
we stand
together
I tell my children
to clean their own rooms
to play fair and make right
to always do
the best they can.
And then I apologize
that I am not leaving them
a better world
than my own.