fences
Do I know where my fences are?
How about the fences that aren't mine?
Do I know where the wires are loose
and the barbs are blunt
and the gates are left swinging open?
And do I know where the fences are tight,
high, camouflaged, booby trapped, electrified, fatal?
How do I patrol my own land,
how do I venture forth?
© Michael Fleming
Berkeley, California
March 1990
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