Tuesday June

Borders,
Boundaries,
Barriers,
Blankets,
Brick by brick.
Wire on wire.
Stone dove-tailed to stone.

Walls for protection.
Agriculture,
Climbers,
and
Domiciles.
And international security.

Walls for definition.
And division.
Walls for peace.
And walls for power.
One wailing wall another’s barbed wire.

Walls for pragmatists and revolutionaries.
And a temporary solution.
Walls for toilets and walls for palaces.
For climbing clematis and for a harem’s premises.

Walls built for breaking.
Some walls broken before the making.
Some walls bloom in a rocky chrysalis.
Others are built with tension-torn deliberation.

They keep ‘em in and they lock you out.
They keep you safe but can suffocate.




(Some are like a mother’s arms
And some call to arms.
Some are padded, some are thin)