Border, a poem by Mike White

A response to Wendy Kawabata

Mike White


Border

 
Black out heat delirium
in a crawlspace
in the back of a delivery truck,

 

the drone of flies and the dark
parts of animals.     

 

It could’ve been worse, he says. 

 

But there are things he can’t eat,
and words
that catch in his throat

 

in more than one tongue. 

  

Responses to Wendy Kawabata's Work
"its strange and swollen borders," a poem by Bethany Schultz Hurst
"After Kawabata's Thicket," a poem by Susan Goslee
Border, a poem by Mike White
"music of the empty chamber," a story by David Rossman
"Regarding the First Conquest," a story by Vincent Standley
"Cutting the Wings Off," a story by Kate Rosenberg
"Micron Revolt," a story by Nicole Walker
"Dora," a story by Jennifer Colville