Sagaree Jain (they/them) is a poet, writer, researcher, and queer from the Silicon Valley. Their writing has been featured in Autostraddle, The Margins, them. magazine, and The Offing. Their poetry collection with Arati Warrier, Longing and Other Heirlooms, was the winner of the Eggtooth Editions Chapbook Contest, and their book SHRINES is out from Game Over Books now. Other things they love include working with young people, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and abolishing the prison industrial complex. They are class and caste privileged and tweet at @sagareej.

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POETRY

Border

By SAGAREE JAIN

I wait
for your tenderness.
bleeding along
a foreign border,