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| The House on Tuesday passed a resolution to overturn President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the southern border, as majority Democrats painted an apocalyptic portrait of a lawless chief executive out to gut the Constitution. —The Washington Post, February 26, 2019 |
An emergency
sleeping in our subways, Sal
knows no other home.
Her belly a beast,
Alma picks through the trash when
no one is looking.
Pedro camps between
boards that used to be his house
in Puerto Rico.
Santa Rosa Ruth
sifts through rubble where wildfires
devoured her mother.
With bare feet we map
our way through the wilderness,
build bridges—not walls.
Donna Katzin is the founding executive director of Shared Interest, a fund that mobilizes the human and financial resources of low-income communities of color in South and Southern Africa. A board member of Community Change in the U.S., and co-coordinator of Tipitapa Partners working in Nicaragua, she has written extensively about South Africa, community development and impact investing. Published in journals and sites including TheNewVerse.News and The Mom Egg, she is the author of With the Hands, a book of poems and photographs about post-apartheid South Africa’s process of giving birth to itself.
