is the author of several books, most recently Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions). He has lived the past year in Marfa (TX), Kaohsiung (Taiwan), Kure (Hiroshima), and Portland (OR), though lives, most presently, nowhere.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.