Abstract
The poem responds to a photograph by Ilana Panich-Linsman that appeared in the magazine <em>Mother Jones</em>. It depicts a migrant, Arlen Cruz, holding her two year-old daughter as rain soaks the camp at a sports complex in Tijuana, Mexico, where many migrants in the caravan from Central America had been staying for two weeks.
Highlights
The poem responds to a photograph by Ilana Panich-Linsman that appeared in the magazine Mother Jones
You’ve held a child of your own like this his two-year-old body heavy, his hair tousled as you carried him up to bed. You see her hand gentle round the child a fierce strength behind the numbness in her eyes: she will guard this with her life
You close the page and leave her there: a single steadfast young woman holding the world in her arms
Summary
The poem responds to a photograph by Ilana Panich-Linsman that appeared in the magazine Mother Jones. Contemporary Voices, Unravelling the Threads of War and Conflict, December 2021
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