indigenous liberation

18 posts

CATASTROPHE: words of peace in times of war

It is excruciatingly lateAnd I need to sleepBut I also need to write I need to processDissecting this confluence of emotionLiving in a moment of historic proportionsFlirting with the precipice of barbarismAn apocalyptic age of mass destruction I am torn between worldsDeluged by diametrically opposed positionsOut of alignment with much […]

SINGULARITY

Light and shadowCause and effectOne and the sameWhat comes next I want your curseI want your diseaseThis is sacred medicinePain pleases me We move through timeHurdling through spaceTasting the fifth dimensionExperiencing the spiritual plane I am the singularityA manifestation of the presentA fusion of all dimensionsLiving in the moment I […]

DARK MAGIC

  Fire writhes upwardManifesting dark magicEmanating from the root chakraLiberating my energyAnimating prophetic imagination Tantric forces amplifyAwakening archetypes of masculinityAwakening my inner kingMy fearless rising warriorMy shamanic magicianMy most exquisite tantalizing lover These archetypes interbreedUnder the glow of dark magicEvolving life force in gestationChanneling the contrast of light and shadowChanneling […]

POSEIDON

A storm is coming together—a storm of emancipationWe will break the interlocking chains of oppression and exploitationYou lend your oceanic power to this atmospheric reverberationFrom frigid deep blue depths arises an armada of liberation Your energy is supersonic—hypnotic and eroticYour torso summons a force both seismic and tectonicThis system is […]

THE GOSPEL OF NAIIMA

Living with purpose—living with joy and passionShe is an oracle of truth—of psychospiritual reactions Her totems are windows into her being’s manifestationsThe giraffe connotes perspective—the butterfly signifies transformation The metaphysical power of snake medicine lies in her gifted handsWe shed old skins but sustain our essential power as lethal venom […]

CYBERPUNK BORICUA

Your body is etched like sacred stoneinspiring transpiring but never aloneour arms embrace i hold you closeangels arise from the ashes as ancestral ghosts You focus your psyche on the quest for connectionyou are a pyromuse and my queer resurrectionyou edit digitized signals with your potent intuitionI amplify your mind […]

PROPHETIC TATTOO

  You are branded in technicolor—fierce and resonant… The iconography of many cultures manifests on your body—intricately executed and spiritually sacrosanct… You are a powerfully unique being and this potency is manifested in this prophetic tattoo—this creation that expresses all that you are and all that you aspire to do… […]

GLOBALIZE

  before we had a globalized system, we had globalized energy:fires of wood or wax to which we made sacred offerings of rare shells, silver, or gold before we had a world economy or planetary pandemics, we drew life and sustenance from the same sun and moon we saw our […]

PROPHYLACTIC RESILIENCE: a COVID communique

so its official—we are now the epicenter of this global pandemicand we aren’t yet managing to even test everyone with symptomsthis is all likely to get exponentially worse before it gets any betterleaders of color have plowed the ground building networks for mutual aid and resistanceprefiguring the faintly visible outlines […]

BLOOD AT THE BORDER: a clash between civilization and utter barbarism

apologies… for this is a frantically written poem–struggling to come to grips with a cataclysmic situation eager to fuel the white nationalist vitriol of his base, our would-be-dictator is deploying the national guard to persecute migrants fleeing poverty and desperation and seeking some faint hope of a better life the […]

PERP WALK

its indictment monday and heads are rolling its a perp walk of the privileged and our resistance is growing we are fighting for regime change here at home we are fighting for a future that justice and karma will condone manafort is going down—flynn was booted out in disgrace but […]

LICENSE TO KILL: a reflection on the arpaio pardon

so the rogue in power has pardoned joe arpaio simultaneously predictable and horrifying, this moment reminds us of the lives at stake as our polity moves through this maelstrom a license to run rough-shod over civil liberties and basic human decency has just been issued it is literally a license […]