She felt like a tree stripped of its leaves and someone was girdling the trunk. Her branches stretched out skeletal after the diet of journeying and fleeing, they rattled against the bones of her children and the struggling child inside, like nestlings hid in a trunk, as they chirp, quarrel and cry for mother’s food.… Continue reading Untitled
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Demons of Trafficking and Immigration.
The chubby cheeked child pressed his teary face against the cold metal box, then deeply burrowed to find the breast, that nurtured him, empty as his mother’s body struggled with starvation instead of promised salvation. ————– The pieces of silver exchanged brought her hope of a golden place; where work was to be in plenty,… Continue reading Demons of Trafficking and Immigration.
Borders
Arbitrarily drawn, each brace is something else’s place and loss as fences are built and concrete is laid for solutions to stop intrusions, incursions and contusions for those who try. There is a body who believes in their right and might for their own bipartisan brain to build visible walls. ===================================== A golden butterfly gentled… Continue reading Borders