It’s Borders All the Way Down

It’s borders all the way down for the crosser. A blind item,

the border rules from the grave but doesn’t speak

 

of graves. Shallow is the sister city that refused

to shudder the fence. I’m from

 

there and still I blank on how the border works;

it just does. What customs says; they think

 

they saw someone who looked exactly like them in line.

Like a cousin from Delicias or a lost fraternal twin,

 

there’s country stuck in the city. I can’t believe

you’d say something like that during blank month.


Also by Gabriel Dozal

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