This painful pantoum illustrates the form’s ability to convey a story. Natalie Diaz’s abecedarian also appears on this site: Natalia Diaz, Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation. Her pantoum,”My Brother at 3 am” is here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56355/my-brother-at-3-am    

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 […]