The swaddled newborn startles awake at a quarter to midnight. I plug his mouth with a powder blue pacifier bearing an elephant with a right ear so large it emerges stone soft, shaded blue, white sharply outlined. The...
The Newborn
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Kenny Tanemura
Kenneth Tanemura has an MFA in Creative Writing from Purdue University and a PhD in Second Language Studies from Purdue. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Malahat Review, Spillway, and elsewhere. A 4th generation Japanese American, he is a recent transplant to Ontario, Canada.