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HATCHING; FOR DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI by KAREN SWENSON

First Line: ON UNIVERSITY AVENUE IN RANGOON
Last Line: TO CRACK ITS WALLS WITH WINGS.
Subject(s): BURMA; REVOLUTIONS; SILENCE; SOLITUDE; LONELINESS;
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On University Avenue in Rangoon,
each day she dines on solitude.

Made mute by generals,
her voice is amplified by silence.

A bird eats its cell,
to crack its walls with wings.



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