Miriam N. KOTZIN teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.  Her poems have appeared in print in, among others Boulevard, Mid-American Review, Southern Humanities Review and Iron Horse Literary Review. Online her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Small Spiral Notebook, Three Candles, Word Riot, For Poetry, and Xaxx.

BORDER PATROL

Through closed eyes
I recognize the dark

achtung!   achtung!
my pulse ticks off

by heart   its own
nocturnal  catalog

(the dog wild now
under the window

a stranger

under the window
silent as a shadow)

stretches hours taut
across the bare planks

of my bedroom floor.

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