Consequences of a Blonde Mary

Consequences of a Blonde Mary, by Kathleen Bonnette

-after Paola Gonzalez and Karla Guitierrez, At the wall, US/Mexico Border, Texas 2020

If our Mary were not golden-haired, but a 
Virgen Morena, swollen with silent
suffering, the golden glow of hope, we might cry
with holy families wholly exhausted from
the thud of golden doors—those
hollowed mamás who,
in Mary’s swollen footsteps, walk.