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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion 
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Coyotes The Sonora is unforgiving, it bakes the summer. Coyotes know these border towns; they know how to slip northward, to prowl sandy canyons with keen eyes. In this desert, they have no need to hunt, for starry-eyed lambs come willingly. Waiting to be shepherded. Waiting on hope. But once huddled into airless, dark cars, once rust has rubbed from walls to stain coats, the lambs grow nervous. They make room for the next lamb and the next. For a while, they cry for agua. For a while, they cry. |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
God, this wrenches my heart. |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Yes, mine too. The clouds never expect it when it rains, but the sea, changes colour, but the sea, does not change. |
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RMW Senior Member
since 2001-03-21
Posts 1424 |
Nicely done, Corinne. I'm reminded of a poem by Charles Erskine Wood where he writes of a coyote "shuttling" back and forth in the desert. Excellent. Bob |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Corinne A good write, enjoyed the read. |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Thank you all! This is actually a repost of an old poem - but with some edits. The original was written after an incident in Texas where 19 immigrants died in the back of a tractor-trailer rig last year while waiting to be smuggled across the border. I grew up in San Diego, 17 miles from the Mexican border; have seen many changes in that situation over the years. When I was a teen, I rode horses along the border down to the beach and could touch the fence that divided the U.S. from Mexico. Those were friendlier times between our countries, I think. Now the border resembles a war zone and the freeway signs warn of families crossing. Horror, sheer and simple. Every year, I read of the deaths caused by smugglers and deaths caused when people die while crossing the desert in the summer trying to get to the U.S. A sad and complicated situation, all the way around. www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33081 Corinne |
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