Border Walls by Isdaly Reyes
I’d rather die.
Ask God to send me pieces of you
hold your amber eyes
suck in your breath.
Clench my teeth.
press our bare chests
Onto the cold steel
Rust coating skin
Bodies heaving.
We make love. Fuck the border wall.
Isdaly Reyes is a current graduate student at Dartmouth College, pursuing a
master’s degree in Creative Writing. She is an award-winning creative writer
and multimedia storyteller with experience across film, literary publishing, and
digital media. Her work has been published in Clamantis: The MALS Journal,
and she was recognized as the Poetry Winner of the Homecoming Writing
Contest. She has a strong background in screenwriting, editorial review,
documentary story development, and interactive narrative.
