Dreams Need No Borders
By Juliet Hinton
after Raphael Agustin
Don't speak Spanish,
my son,
my father
and hero said to me
as agents took down
an illegal in front of
our eyes on a California
sandy beach,
Education equals freedom,
LAX flying, acceptance
into theater school at college,
And now my father's
and mother’s sacrifice
On a cold tile floor,
Not the American dream,
But now I'm a real American.
I can be a comedian.
Who has the last laughs.
Juliet Hinton is a Cancer Registry Manager in Research and Informatics for over twenty-two
years. In January 2022, she received Pushcart Prize Nomination – “Calvary Baptist Church” published in Delta Poetry Review. Her metaphoric vision of landscape, feminine voice, and the miseries and mercies of Perry County poems published in the Tipton Poetry Journal,
Valley Voices Literary Review, Delta Poetry Review, San Pedro Review, and other literary
journals. Her poetry chapbook, “The Mercies of Perry County” will be published by Finishing
Line Press in February 2024. She is currently working on more Perry County and landscape
poems, and a new project on oncology cancer care.
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