Not One More Refugee Death
Not One More Refugee Death
Not One More Refugee Death
By Emmy Pérez
—María Meléndez
1.
Thousands of fish killed after Pemex
spill in el Río Salado and everyone
runs out to buy more bottled water.
Here, our river kills more crossers
than the sun, than the singular
2.
Today at the vigil, the native singer
said we are all connected
by water, la sangre de vida.
Emmy Pérez, "Not one more refugee death" from With the River on Our Face. Copyright © 2016 by
Emmy Pérez. Reprinted by permission of University of Arizona Press.
Source: With the River on Our Face (University of Arizona Press, 2016)