the border

the border
Originally uploaded by josefina1.

after our hike, tess and i drove to the chain link fence that marks the border between mexico and the united states. i couldn't help but think back to a book i read a year ago... "The US- Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country, a border culture."
--Anzaldua
i was standing on that herida abierta and i could feel the sharpness of the cut.