Sagaree Jain is a poet, writer, educator, and visual artist from the Silicon Valley. They are the co-creator of the Turmeric Project, which spotlights queer South Asian art, and their work has been published or featured in The Aerogram, The Margins, The Offing, and The New York Times. Sagaree is fascinated by South Asia, scientific racism, reproductive justice, queer health, decolonization, migration, surveillance, on and on. They live in Oakland.

POETRY

Border

By SAGAREE JAIN

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