Boundaries

 Boundaries

Lady Liberty beckons

All to gaze at the wall in Nogales

brave hidden water in the blazing sands.

Nature weaponized!!

Boundaries

Arbitrary line drawn in world geography

Geomorphology gone extinct

Political land redistricting 1848

Human and nonhuman alike

Othering 

.. the BIPOC body

...the disabled body

...nonhuman bodies when it suits power needs. 

Nature exploited for supremacy

Categorize and disconnect. 

Who decides?

Who gets Agency?

Binary, privilege v. pain. 

The migrant body, a physical wall

The disabled body, a societal wall

Ever at edge of resources and land 

Land is belonging and body

Deemed purposeless, cast aside

Inaccessibility, the ultimate price

Periphery. 

(written during one my Disability Studies courses @UC Berkeley)