spell for reclaiming the moment

By adrienne maree brown even now
we could be happy

even now

breathing in
filling our bodies with right now

Partum

By Rio Cortez Just as close to living as you are to disappearing knowing
my limits you locate the tender spots without.

By Ashna Ali On an assemblage of screens on another firework evening
Ruthie Gilmore reminds us that abolition is not recitation.

By Hayan Charara The Arab apocalypse began around the year
of my birth, give or take—
the human apocalypse,
a few thousand years earlier.

By Caridad Moro-Gronlier if i should
take you
to that spot
by the water
you can’t pronounce
but love

By Arianna Monet I say Well, it is a compound word, so..

Code. Noun.
A system of marking things with different colors
as a means of identification.

By Siaara Freeman When I say ancestors, let’s be clear:
I mean slaves. I’m talkin’ Tennessee
cotton & Louisiana suga. I mean grave dirt.

By Cintia Santana inside
a cell
a heart

(my cousin’s)

inside
his heart
(inside
a cell)
a cluster
of cells

arrested

By Aurora Levins Morales Why do they call us "the patient"
We are not patient. We endure.

By Adela Najarro I have learned to speak dementia
by looking straight into her eyes
smiling, laughing, then digging deep