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Treason




        for these
        our final words &
        execution

struck          head to du-
                       thread knit

                       a flag I set

                       a flag I set

                       (-tk, meaning the flag would

char
                       over time, bu-
                       in this part
                       someone’s been lifted

                       still alive, bu-

                       Mai

                       denies her mark)


who she was                          vocabulary
                                                oblig-
                                                  prostrations, twice for

husband who dies
publicly

        for those
        treasonous
        come to me &

                       lifted above
                       proceeding to     embassy

                       funeral

Mai, the same one
my children



Sophia Terazawa is the author of Anon and Winter Phoenix, both with Deep Vellum, along with the chapbooks I AM NOT A WAR (Essay Press) and Correspondent Medley (Factory Hollow Press), winner of the 2018 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She teaches poetry at Virginia Tech. Her favorite color is purple.