This Poem was Submitted By: John R. Birkbeck On Date: 2001-07-11 15:53:41 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Astride The Frontier

I'm divided into halves, up through the middle from crotch to crown; in two places at one time. The countryside around me, a single panorama, looks much the same from either eye. Two worlds are sundered by an invisible line, and two languages. The natal bi-section cleaves my buttocks, a seam, welds my organs into a dual symmetry. My body is a twinned pair, two creatures joined in one, each in a different nation. Like this landscape, I'm half in my mother country, half in my fatherland.

Copyright © July 2001 John R. Birkbeck

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This poem has appeared, in one form or another, in France Poems, CRS, Field of Poems.


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