Takefumi Kawahara is a recent graduatae of the University of Maine at Fort Kent. He resides in Japan.

Red, White and Yellow Stripe

They came from the West, where

the sun goes down

They came to the East, where

the sun comes up

with a pile of trunks, a pile of hope

They moved to the mountains, where

everything was frozen

They moved to the desert, where

everyone was blazing

with a pile of people, a pile of truth