raices inmigrantes

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LEGACY: an adams morgan story

  Prologue: Displacement has a long history on this groundNacotchtank: the Piscataway people’s name for this landDescribing the convergence of rivers and its peopleThis park was a Black cemeteryPowerful abolitionists lie interred hereWe imagine a legacySeeds of contemporary resistanceSowed by generations long past   Act I: A History of Segregation […]

FLOWERS OF CONFLAGRATION

    These men of beautyIlluminated in vulnerabilityLips fullEyes radiantChurning with passionWith karmic intensity Faces framed by flowersColors lush and vibrantRedefining masculinityManifesting the alchemy of queer identity These vibrant paintingsCrafted with exquisite careOffering insight and perspectiveProphetic manifestationsConjuring the synergy of liberation Flowers of joyFlowers of vulnerabilityFlowers of magic and epic […]

SACRED SPIRITS: una poema para el día de los muertos

spirits of life—angels of death hermanas y hermanos—give me your breath we traverse the earth—we search high and low we seek karmic rebirth—buscamos el cielo espiritus santos—cosmic incisions we strive for solidarity—we name our own missions dia de los muertos—day of the dead we honor the memories of ancestors living […]

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 […]

OF WORMHOLES AND NIRVANAS

flying high on dopamine i see visions in the sky hieroglyphics everywhere seducing my mind late at night when i close my eyes i see wormholes to distant galaxies we must resist the pathologization of our tribe’s neurodiversity i dream in staccato rhythms–refueling energy for the day ahead i am […]