This powerful pantoum explores the cycles of fear and violence repeated over and over at border crossings. Like K McClendon’s pantoum, the pantoum form creates a haunting cadence and uses repetition to add a visceral experience for the reader. This pantoum also brings together two art forms as it is dedicated to Reena Saini Kallat’s “Woven Chronicle,” a study of maps.
Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns.
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