immigration line
a red thread caught
in her teeth
Upstate Dim Sum, November 2009
Roberta Beary
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
移民行列
在她的牙齒之間
一條紅線
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
移民行列
在她的牙齿之间
一条红线
Bio Sketch
Roberta Beary is the haibun editor at Modern Haiku. Her bestselling collection The Unworn Necklace (Snapshot Press) won a Poetry Society of America finalist award. Her haibun collection Deflection (Accents Publishing) won the Eric Hoffer and Touchstone finalist awards. Follow her on twitter @shortpoemz.
The unusual yet thematically significant and emotionally powerful juxtaposition of (sociopolitically charged) "immigration line" and (symbolically rich) "red thread (/line)" lifts the poem out of the ordinary and sparks the reader's reflection on Life on various border lines in the post-9-11 world.
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