From within an Avalanche of rubble…. Cactus spikes form, erecting defensive stubble Where the dimples of a smile ought to reign, Gazans strain like the foreign Canary Pine trees dry out in Palestine. Brave men transform into solid sticks yearning to lift concrete Stones off beloveds’ bones … They cannot. Cage-like crosses of […]
Hispanic Heritage Month arrives this year against a backdrop of nationwide immigration enforcement that has swept through agricultural regions across the country. ICE arrests have spiked following new enforcement policies under the Trump administration. While raids have been reported in California’s Central Coast, Ventura County, the San Joaquin Valley, and Oregon’s Willamette Valley, the enforcement […]
“Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.” — Mahmoud Darwish Palestine Resistance has exposed Colonialism. Refusing to leave, and willing to die, we long proper burials in our own earth that you brutally deny… Why strip us of this right to sanctify […]
