Laura Foley uses brevity and simplicity to make a powerful impact in this prose poem.
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Not Humming
On the forced march from Tientsin to Woosung, our Marines, ordered silent—No
humming or singing snapped the Japanese, as the men trudged a hundred miles to prison.
My father, not humming, the whole of four winters, or to my knowledge, since.
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“Not Humming” is from Laura Foley’s book Joy Street (Headmistress Press)
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Laura Foley has published poetry with us before. Read her “Lapping Over Us.”
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