TONY MARES
STANTON STREET BRIDGE GOODBYE
Time to say goodbye
to the river crossing,
goodbye to El Paso / Juarez,
the Stanton Street Bridge.
Time to say goodbye to the family,
a child, a woman, two men,
one white-haired, all crowded
together on the rubber tire raft
crossing the river.
Time to say goodbye
to la migra in their green trucks
running around like Keystone Kops
chasing mexicanos guilty
of trying to return
to their ancestral homeland.
Time to say goodbye
to the troubled border.
from RIO DEL CORAZON
Voices From the American Land, 2011
www.voicesfromtheamericanland.org/html/mares.html
CRISTINA BRANCO
ELIADES OCHOA
