One Scenario

By Saretta Morgan More than a decade after being sentenced I share the news with my mom.

spell for reclaiming the moment

By adrienne maree brown even now
we could be happy

even now

breathing in
filling our bodies with right now

By mónica teresa ortiz I wake up sleepless inside a room overlooking giants//mist peeling over olive trees//clouds of pleasure

By Rio Cortez Just as close to living as you are to disappearing knowing
my limits you locate the tender spots without.

By Ashna Ali On an assemblage of screens on another firework evening
Ruthie Gilmore reminds us that abolition is not recitation.

By Caridad Moro-Gronlier if i should
take you
to that spot
by the water
you can’t pronounce
but love

By Arianna Monet I say Well, it is a compound word, so..

Code. Noun.
A system of marking things with different colors
as a means of identification.

By Siaara Freeman When I say ancestors, let’s be clear:
I mean slaves. I’m talkin’ Tennessee
cotton & Louisiana suga. I mean grave dirt.

By Aurora Levins Morales Why do they call us "the patient"
We are not patient. We endure.

By Joselia Rebekah Hughes Black able rack able
hack able tack able
lack able slack able