By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
MANZANAR (A World War II Japanese Internment Camp)
10.000 blossoms
36 blocks plucked and blown
Into Sierra’s
Cement foundations
Hold up machine gunned peaks
Snowy kimonos
Behind the barbed wire
Apples weigh down tree branches
Spoiled fruit rotting ground
Paper cranes and coins
For the deported interned
Watchtowers guarding
Weaving camouflage
Could not conceal Manzanar:
Liberty’s graveyard
When people bury
Orchards with avalanches
Mountains fall again