ICE FLIGHT #93

 

ICE FLIGHT #93, 29 DECEMBER, 2020

for Danielle, Mick, Mike, Pat

Flight’s back on, Email says,

a chance to say once more,

Thanks for counting, reporting

asylum seekers, for waving

until I found you. Last one

this year. Last one, ever?

They piled some snow up here

in front of us. The legal pad

records 15 deportees

from two buses arriving

from Tacoma. Personal

belongings in plastic bags.

Shackles laid out on tarmac

with handcuffs. Behind the fence

with us, a photographer

from the paper, stabilizes

his camera with a mono-pod.

Jim

31 December 2020