By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
REFUGEE DEATHS
Over
35,000 men women children
wired to a fence
Each name
a page in earth’s history
spit into fire
devoured by sea
deported
redacted into dust
Over
35,000 men women children
no number for the nameless
wired to a fence
or dissolved by water and salt
because they were born
outside
the borders of privilege
Each name an answer
stamped into shale
leaving me to question
my carbon fingerprint
and surgically sanitized hands