Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: witness poems and essays from Burma / Myanmar 1988–2021 festivals they explode out of her

they explode out of her like an over-squeezed stress ball

Did it fall off

Katie is now back in Asia and

or maybe it’s the gift giving and holiday parties to come that day

Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring: witness poems and essays from Burma / Myanmar 1988–2021 festivals they explode out of herEdited by Ko Ko Thett & Brian Haman paperback Fallen innocents on blood stained streets. The defiant banging of pots and pans echoing in the darkness. The birth of a springtime revolution amidst the interrupted lives of a country and its people. On the morning of 1 February 2021, a coup dtat was initiated by the Tatmadaw, Myanmars military, effectively overthrowing the democratically elected members of the countrys ruling party, the National League