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A Yuletide Tanka

by

John J. Dunphy

Christmas Eve

kneeling on the sidewalk

a shabby-dressed woman

warms her hands over

a luminary

John J. Dunphy’s poetry collections include Old Soldiers Fading Away, Zen Koanhead, Touching Each Tree, pagan rites, Bullet Cluster, Stellar Possibility and Dark Nebulae. He is also the author of non-fiction works such as Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials: The Investigative Work of the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, 1945–1947.