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​Poetry

​on a farm in brownsville

9/4/2018

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D. Ellis Phelps

“In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security
informed landowners along the northern edge of the
Rio Grande that the new border fence would be cutting
through their properties.”
 

Texas Monthly, 2011

​rust colored steel
cuts through
 
melon & mesquite
 
chops this land in half
 
where hundred year-old oaks
were felled       in the weld
 
security      unsecured
 
from this landowners porch:
 
no more pastoral view
no more free passage
from pasture to pasture
 
where he and his father
and his father before him
 
who came:  chasing the dream
 
grew cotton and corn
sorghum and cane
 
for a hundred years
& more
 
now      this farmer
             who feeds us
 
must ask    permission
to pass       from one piece
of his own land
 
to another

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