Highway of tears
By Margaret Poynor-Clark
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There’s a highway of tears
where a girl hitches a ride
and never arrives.
An Indigenous worker, a sex worker,
a nighttime economy worker,
titles that separate her
from being a woman
on her way home.
No-one saw her
get into that car
that drove off to the side
deep into the forest.
Only the trees will watch
the life squeezed out of her;
to be left as dead meat
for coyotes and bears.
The Highway of Tears is a 719km corridor between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada, the location of crimes against Indigenous women.
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