The Age of Unreason (Jennifer Chang)

This poem was originally written by Jennifer Chang.

"On January 17, 1989, a young white man entered the schoolyard of Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton California, with a semiautomatic rifle. He shot and killed five children and wounded thirty-two others. The victims, as well as many of the wounded, were the children of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees."

Poetry July/August 2023 p. 299