“Border” by Sarah Pemberton Strong (poetry, ’15)

An excerpt from the poem “Border,” by Sarah Pemberton Strong (poetry, ’15), published at The Nation:

Border

Things different over there
the words for them different
the things themselves

all the same

she put her flesh
in the mouth of a coyote
so that he would take her

a cross

to mark the place
where someone
died trying

two white sticks

the ghost of cactus
and the clouds
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