Anuja Ghimire is from Kathmandu, Nepal. A Pushcart and best of the net nominee, her work found home in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Brown Orient, The Good Men Project, and EcoTheo Review, among others. Her chapbook Kathmandu is forthcoming from The Unsolicited Press in 2020.
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 8, 2019
Anuja Ghimire
Today they say they pray for El Paso
tomorrow
caged kids will still sleep
under aluminum blankets
their kin will still weep
close to the border
tomorrow
birds will perch on Walmart roof
songs on their beaks
whitewash on the SUVs
the moon will come through
spill on the bleached parking lot
tomorrow
you cannot stay in El Paso
the white sun will burn holes in Texan clouds
tomorrow, they will pray, El Paso
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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