{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Two Poems: Crossing Frontiers  and Crossing the Road","author_name":"Althea Romeo-Mark ","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article240550.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article240550.html'\u003ETwo Poems: Crossing Frontiers  and Crossing the Road\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECrossing Frontiers \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n  The faces, within bullet proof cubicles, wear emotionless masks. Greetings are brisk. Bureaucrats are robotic-ready with drilling questions: Name? Country? Reason for visit?   They will listen to the stories of the nobodies on slow-moving lines, from a land without rain; and a country where the rich own everything except some souls; and a family from a place where clan is killing clan to assert domination; and people born into the wrong religion, butchered and burned; (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}