Tankas 

The door was held open

My father never write me 

But that is a lie

Father has been writing me

Every week since his big arrest.

Her father had been arrested because of the fact that he is Japanese, since all Japanese and Japanese americans have been accused for pearl harbor. While he is in jail he writes his daughter every week but it seems forever for the daughter " My father never writes be but that is a lie" (pg),.