What is Pride?
What is pride: When Black women are killed on the street? When trans women die in concentration camps? When indigenous women and girls...
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- Dec 4, 2018
In Memoriam: A Poem
for George H.W. Bush, written December, 2018 In Memoriam, Part I Even though I know The government is ––And always has been–– Filled with...
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- Aug 15, 2017
From Safer Shores…
From safer shores we watch the torch’s flame America, your grace was ever fraught. Founded on blood and genocide and greed. America,...
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- Jan 31, 2014
The Calling
When you stand before the fire There shall be no more weeping. The trees shall whisper and wind shall moan: Your fate is in your hands....
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- Mar 29, 2012
On the Passing of the Poet
.“When does a life bend towards freedom? grasp its direction? How do you know you’re not circling in pale dreams,...
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- Feb 29, 2012
Holding Beloved Community – part 4
I received the following poem two days ago from a man I’ve never met who reads my blog, and got permission to pass it along. It feels...
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- Nov 17, 2011
Shall We Dance?
I dreamt last night of waltzing As a civil disobedience. Hundreds of us moving ‘til our skins bumped into sweat. And still we swung...
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- Mar 9, 2011
Courting Meditation
Green hummingbird At geometric dance Before high window. Laughter of delight Penetrates still meditation. Thank you, brother bird....
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- Feb 1, 2011
The Meeting of Fjölnir’s Parents
Her stature was a breathtaking Thing to behold. She towered in her beauty, Face turned toward me… A giant among women and Gods. What...
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