A section of the border wall on a hill in the Guadalupe canyon.
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An open gate in the border wall.
Jacumba, California. Here, the steel border fence ends suddenly, allowing people to cross between the US and Mexico.
The fence ends on a hill above Tijuana.
Crosses mark the graves where unidentified people, some of them migrants who tried to cross into the US, are buried near #Tijuana
Psalm
How leaky are the borders of man-made states!
How many clouds float over them scot-free,
how much desert sand sifts from country to country,
how many mountain pebbles roll onto foreign turf
in provocative leaps!
Need I cite each and every bird as it flies,
or alights, as now, on the lowered gate?
Even if it be a sparrow—its tail is abroad,
thought its beak is still home. As if that weren’t enough—it keeps fidgeting!
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#poetry
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