Frontera
herida
abierta
sin cicatrizar
espina
clavada
en el corazón
Muro
de Lamentos
para familias
fantasía
pesadilla
desilusión
refugio
purgatorio
infierno
para miles
tumba sin
demarcación
oh desierto
abrazando
al cielo
oh partición
del alma de
la humanidad
Border
open
bleeding
wound
thorn
piercing
the heart
Wall
of Laments
for families
fantasy
nightmare
delusion
refuge
purgatory
hell
unmarked
tomb for
thousands
o desert
embracing
the sky
o partition
of the soul
of humanity
FRANCISCO X. ALARCÓN is an award-winning Chicano poet and educator. He’s the author of seven books of poetry for grown-ups and six bilingual poetry books for children. His most recent books are Canto hondo/Deep Song (University of Arizona Press 2015) and Borderless Butterflies/Mariposas sin fronteras (Poetic Matrix Press 2014). He is the founder of the Facebook page “Poets Responding to SB 1070.” He teaches at the University of California, Davis.
Read more of Francisco X. Alarcón's poems in Issue 2, Vol. 1 Spring 2015.