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believe me

By leilani portillo when i say
the land is my
ancestor
believe me.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Morning Star

By Craig Santos Perez kaikainaliʻi wakes from her late afternoon nap
and reaches for nālani with small open hands—

count how many papuan children
still reach for their disappeared parents—

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From “understory”

By Craig Santos Perez kai cries
from teething--

how do
new parents

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There Is Only One World, This One

by: S. J. Ghaus

Sometimes I want us to horse / through the world like it’s on fire, / yelling and singing

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New Exile Poems

by: Tuhin Das

he asks whether I could not / sleep last night because of thoughts of homeland

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Silhouette

by: Ladan Osman

their faces so hard to read / when they make odd-placed sighs / at Black people histories

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Just Is - Where There Are Black People in the Future

by: Jaden Fields

Until the moon loses their footing in the sky / Which is to say - never

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Anthropocene Pastoral

by: Subhaga Crystal Bacon

This is the anti-garden. It tends itself.

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