……….O rim
……….shipside
……….who swore
……….they’d smite
……….our borders
……….with frogs
……….along the borders
……….of the City of Refuge
along the fenced borders
pleasantstoned borders
fictional borders
……….dense networks
……….of social ties
……….across borders
transnational
flight
ergo
……….capital flows
……….capitals fluid
……….ethereal
……….digitally
……….omnipresent
I a pronoun
tariff to you
or
……….militarized
……….borders say
capital! say
ethereal……….I
omnipresent
…………………..borders
flow
capitals
…………………..to you!
militarized
pronoun
…………………..digitally
…………………..fluid tariffs
cross borders
erase the borders
…………………..of feeling
…………………..at the borders
…………………..of philosophy
where the line that separates
one line from another
lets its ellipsis slip
and its thesis and counterthesis
come to occupy the same fire
Mark Grenon's writing has appeared in The Antigonish Review, filling Station, the Hamilton Review of Books, Matrix, PRISM international, The Puritan, and Vallum. He’s taught ESL in the Czech Republic, Taiwan, and Chile, and lives in Montréal.