colonization
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You are Right to Fear Me
your children watch me daily and God forbid they learn a different way to be kind to choose themselves to honor other people ‘s autonomyand right to self-determination to find their own liberation in the fray of mistakes and lessons and grace, the soft nature of things space to figure it out what a scary… Continue reading
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Abandoned Verses from News of a Ceasefire
How do I carry you to the next expanse of silence Push these disheartened vessels towards the next markers of safety a cubic mile of sky visited only by kites and feathered friends Can you run to living at a walking pace to the home whose walls are lonely bones of a defaced promise but… Continue reading
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What shape does erasure make of memory? What direction is the future if you amputate the past?
How far along a carpet bombing before you stop recognizing your own school, your route home, the corner store you get your morning coffee from? How shelled the concrete, how drenched in blood and screaming the walls, how altered the sky, how exposed the ordinary secrets until a structure loses its soul? How much decimation… Continue reading
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Passing a Migrant Camp when it’s 26°F
There is a sacred part of methat finds in my rageits missing name.The syllables burn at the edgeslike a beacon to the frozentips of my fingers.I am not home in the cold.Sure, I took the time to make peacewith its sleet-claimed streetsso I’d never have to get lostin it again. So I wouldn’t haveto ask… Continue reading
Rampant & Golden 