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First Morning Poem

By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke In a room facing chimneys
over the place Nancy Morejón rests
between sleeps lining free lines
she whispers to hearing DC:

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

America, I Sing Back

By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke America, I sing back. Sing back what sung you in.
Sing back the moment you cherished breath.
Sing you home into yourself and back to reaso

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we ask mama-n-em, “where is the motherworld?”

by: Destiny Hemphill

yes, in your breath / & in your hands that fend off, defend us // from the state that craves our death, seeks to snuff our breath

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a cavalry of possession that erases

homelands: we shrink shrink—in time-lapse

of colonial barter. . . disappear .

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because even though the news has nothing new to say / and keeps on saying it / NO still fights its way into the world

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Start with something simple: 13 loosely lingering light-hearted lines that eventually morph / into crowbars ★ corps ★ prison cells ★ bylines.

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Bill Pay

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can god let the bills pay themselves for now // how many rosaries will equal the rent when will we know / if we paid enough in prayers

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