DECLARATION OF JUBILEE
That redemption exists as destruction (of debt) rather than as repayment
rehumanizing
policy
our calendar—january 1st to new year’s eve—is shot, riddled (why??) / with death.
The fear is: the chalk of our origins will not smudge.
why force fit my words to capture / the state, its terror, this state of terror
This shadowless dragon is incomplete / So he strives to set the tall trees of the motherland ablaze.
In Venezuela, listening to the pulse of grassroots resistance belying the notion of a vanquished socialism.
I will never forget how her hands cut melody lines out of air, sharp and precise as a tailor turned sword-warrior.
Fighting for accessible childcare in the nation of personal responsibility.