"SARAJEVO BLUES"

I come late to this book but I already know it will be one of my most powerful poetry reads this year: SARAJEVO BLUES by Semezdin Mehmedinović. Indeed, it compelled a tanka:

"Sarajevo Blues"

--a tanka for and after Semezdin Mehmedinović

Let us go then, you

And I, in denial of

Shrouded streets, where red

Laser beams cut through dimness

And maybe we will be missed