CHEERFUL NOISE as in a poem

Today's poem I didn’t know such a history in Great Britain - the history of the Romani people. I knew and met only the Romani people who lived in Spain, Portugal, and Hungary. Some of them were great musicians, e.g., Django Reinhardt. And although completely forgot it, there is a book The Traveller-Gypsies  by Judith Okely on my family’s bookshelf and I recall I read it a long time ago when I met them in Europe. After that, a poetry collection FURY by David Morley was presented to me two years ago. His collection contains poems on the Romani people. https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784109905 Now Sanka (サンカ) people as wanderers in Japan come up in my mind. Unfortunately, they could be no longer living. Even now it is shadow of Japan's history.   https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AB Here, I would like to introduce the poet Raine Geoghegan’s poem 'Under a Gooseberry Bush'. When I joined a poetry workshop in the UK, a British poet

Today's poem Second encounter with poems by Layli Long Soldier. First, in Nina Mingya Powles’ online workshop. This time, Carrie Etter’s session in the early morning today. After finishing her session, I promptly purchased Layli Long Soldier’s collection Whereas via Kindle. Such a book title Whereas I have never met, only seen in agreements, i.e., legal documents. I first thought that the title was non-poetic, but I agreed with it when I read the Part II in the collection. Soldier’s poem Edge stroke me so much. I could see passing sceneries during the drives. Mother called Mommy might be Soldier herself in the poem and her small kid might be in her car. They saw scenes flowing from her car and chatted to each other. Mommy could not accurately hear the kid’s chit-chat. In the poem, unique effects of punctuation are exhibited, e.g., enumeration of words. That is transition of scenes and sound frame by frame; sometimes not to catch words or sometimes to catch words like hallucinatio