A Brief History of the People and Relations of the United States-Mexican Border :: Essays Papers

A Brief History of the People and relations of the United States-Mexican Border Wind tugging at my sleeve feet sinking into the sandpaper I stand at the edge where the earth touches ocean where the twain overlap a gentle coming together at different times and places a violent clash Across the border in Mexico stark silhouette of houses gutted by waves, cliffs crumbling into the sea, silver waves marbled with spume gashing a hole under the border fence. Miro el mar atacar la cerca en Border Field Park con sus buchones de agua, an easterly Sunday resurrection of the brown blood in my veins. Oigo el llorido del mar, el respiro del aire, my oculus surges to the beat of the sea. In the gray haze of the sun the gulls shrill crab of hun ger, the tangy smell of the sea seeping into me.