What is pride: When Black women are killed on the street? When trans women die in concentration camps? When indigenous women and girls...

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...

image by Candiix/Pixabay Tailtiu cleared the plains So crops would grow. She died, exhausted from her labor. But the land flourished, and...

From safer shores we watch the torch’s flame America, your grace was ever fraught. Founded on blood and genocide and greed. America,...

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....

.“When does a life bend towards freedom? grasp its direction? How do you know you’re not circling in pale dreams,...

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...

I dreamt last night of waltzing As a civil disobedience. Hundreds of us moving ‘til our skins bumped into sweat. And still we swung...

Green hummingbird At geometric dance Before high window. Laughter of delight Penetrates still meditation. Thank you, brother bird....

Her stature was a breathtaking Thing to behold. She towered in her beauty, Face turned toward me… A giant among women and Gods. What...

To You. Above the white city On winking green hillside, I offered up my life… Not realizing in that moment, that I took it for myself....

Knowledge How does one speak Of the crossing of that Chasm of Birth and Knowing When we think of it as Death, And Death it is, yet...