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Embracing the “we.” Concrete poems, plenty wordplay, interior rhymes, lovely lyricism, but often feels surface. History. Politics & play. Music. Faves: “the blessings,” “holla” 2023
13 “if I must be hard, it will be as a tree,
alive with change.”
74 “we‘d have ida b. wells
and june jordan reporting
on the universe‘s dirty drawers, leaving no
question unasked & no record
unread.”
92 “o harriet-chariot, swing lower than maryland,
swing wider.”
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