Patricia Asuncion’s most recent poem to appear here was “Extant” (August 2018). Gray-Haired Children By Patricia Asuncion Wide-eyed, brutal interruption, no chance for measured protection. Bullets stop saplings dead before season. Every day, 46 children shot grow old on branches without voice, forgotten by next breaking news. Juvenile blooms— every day 7, every year 1300, […]