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Michele Parker Randall: Dividing Line

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

How we scratch and scrape our fingers to the bone 
trying to live up to the edge of the border we create 
this is mine                                  that is yours 
you can have that                        you can keep those 
and rivers become unspoken arrangements 
of here and there, and broken agreements 
don’t cross here                         you can’t have that 
you can’t keep those                 don’t cross me 
that is yours                                 this is mine 
how much we have etched and how thick the line 
between countries and cousins, between man and wife 
this is mine and you cannot cross here and that is yours 
and I have gouged the earth with my fingernails

Filed Under: Contributors 94, Issue 94, Poetry, Poetry 94 Tagged With: Contributors 94, Michele Parker Randall, Poetry, Poetry 94

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