This tanka is dedicated it to all who have dealt with the trauma
of childhood sexual abuse.

he believed

himself omnipotent…

the innocence

of so many children

dissolved in a moment

Photograph by Circe Denyer

Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal,
Issue 25, 2018

It’s a great honor to have had this tanka published in Eucalypt. My thanks to editor, Julie Anne Thorndyke for selecting this particular poem.

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