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Border - Lisa Fannen

from Faultline by Lisa Fannen and...

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  • Faultline is a collection of poetry published by Active Distribution/Sto Citas, November 2018. The poems are political and personal (and an examination of where those territories meet), observational and contemplative, and travel through explorations of social inequality, police violations, street homelessness in the US, environmental disaster, intimate experiences of queer sexuality, rites of passage and bereavement, also the power of guidance and renewal. Paperback, 127 pages.
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Border

Young woman
white underarm handbag
slip-ons with high heels she was
just taller than the counter
where he was looking at her
and at her passport

He hands her a card
says can you fill in these details
can you read it, you're German yes
are you German
do you speak German

All ten of her fingers
pushing against the plastic counter
him holding the passport between
thumb and finger, then with both hands
he says I don't think this is her
to a second passport controller
who has come to stand behind his right shoulder

I glimpse the photo
the young woman next to me
the man at my counter asking
if I’ve just come from the Czech Republic
that there are two buses they are processing
no I say, Germany

We get back on the coach
the doors close
the coach pulls away

The driver stops to recount
folk at the front say that the young woman isn't there
pointing to the seat where she’d been sitting

Ja, he said
sie haben sie verhafftet
arrested, 14, 15, 16, 17...
her bags still on the seat
the bus drives off

An older women at the front tells us all
the bus doesn't wait if you're detained —
then reaches to the seat behind her
where the young woman had been sitting
and flicks through the magazines she’d been reading

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from Faultline, released May 22, 2020
Voice recorded by Jer Reid.
Sound produced and mixed by Lisa Fannen

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