Border Crossings

 Border

 

To cross in times of plenty

Or in want

The mind’s grey register

Of difference

The taking and the giving up

 

The space of limit and beginning

Of pause and motivation

 

Where looking backward and forward

Are both gestures of despair

 

A skin stretched tightly against possibility

The hand a knife poised against it

Deciding

 

 

Crossing

 

Crossing is a thing we do

To cancel out

To pray

To move

 

From space to space

 

To etch a signature

Rebut or overlap

Marry or traverse

 

A place

A country

Or a time