Border Policy by Lynn D. Gilbert

Written By Rhizomag .

POETRY

Mijo is not the same.
He clings to me all day.
He won’t stay
with his aunt or his father
any more.

And they returned him to us
with lice. Wherever it was
they sent him to live,
claro
no one bathed him
during the whole time
he was away from us.

Lynn D. Gilbert's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Appalachian Review, Arboreal, Blue Unicorn (Pushcart nomination), Consequence, Light, The MacGuffin, Ponder Review (Pushcart nomination), and elsewhere. Her poetry volume has been a finalist in the Gerald Cable and Off the Grid Press book contests.  A founding editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, she lives in an Austin suburb and reviews poetry submissions for Third Wednesday journal.

 
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