Tankas 

Dont touch me you heard

Impossible said mother

Let me be sick alone

Continued to rub my back

And i did not push mom away.

The daughter was feeling terrible and so did the mother. The mother saw how badly the situation they are in is affecting the little girl " Let me be sick alone... Dont touch me you heard" (pg),. but the mother still comforts her.

Always it seems he

Had something else on his mind

Maybe he missed her

Was hoping she would come home

Years before right after they married.

He is waiting for his wife he hopes and prays that she would come home. All he has been thinking about is her "was hoping she would come home" (pg),.

Next several day we

Did nothing but wait

For the hours to pass 

We went to school we came home

He's in albuquerque now.

They are waiting for their father to come home, The family waits day and night and hes still not home " did nothing but wait" (pg),. The kids would go to school but he is still not home but father is somewhere else " He's inn albuquerque now" (pg),.

Our own father was

Taken in for questions 

He was in his robe

We felt ashamed of Pearl Harbor 

Is the emporer a man.

Their father was taken away for an interigation because he was Japanese " father was taken away" (pg),. After pearl harbor the Japanese Americans were being shamed after pearl harbor becuase even though the Japanese Americans were innocent they were accused " we felt ashamed of Pearl Harbor" (pg),.

Children left for school

Boxes and suitcases everywhere

Packed and ready to go

Envelope tossed away somewhere

She pulled on her white silk gloves.

Everyday life is going on for now but the mother is aware that they will be leaving soon. " Boxes and suitcases everywhere" (PG 4), She has everything packed up in the house and is aware that the time to leave is coming.

Play dead boy play dead

His paws went limp his head turned

Trickle of blood seeped out 

She untied him from the tree

Deep breath, she began to bury him.

She was protecting the dog in her own way. i believe that maybe she didnt want the dog to beleft behind like how she was leaving her life behind, or for the dog to see its world leaving him.