As the
incoming administration builds its agenda of attack on marginalized people, on
freedom of speech, on the earth itself, poetry will continue to be an essential
voice of resistance. Poets will speak out in solidarity, united
against hatred, systemic oppression, and violence and for justice, beauty,
and community.
In this
spirit, Split This Rock is offering its blog as a Virtual Open Mic. For the
rest of this frightening month, January of 2017, we invite you to send us poems
of resistance, power, and resilience.
We will post every poem we receive unless it is offensive (containing language that is derogatory toward marginalized groups, that belittles, uses hurtful stereotypes, etc.). After the Virtual Open Mic closes, we hope to print out and mail all of the poems to the White House.
We will post every poem we receive unless it is offensive (containing language that is derogatory toward marginalized groups, that belittles, uses hurtful stereotypes, etc.). After the Virtual Open Mic closes, we hope to print out and mail all of the poems to the White House.
For
guidelines on how to submit poems for this call, visit the Call for Poems of
Resistance, Power & Resilience blog post.
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Elephant
of Mortality
by Lori Desrosiers
by Lori Desrosiers
I hear another military jet whining
overhead and the only elephant in the room is the wooden one on the coffee
table. or it could be when I check on my mother every night, or listen for the
next shoe to drop, or the clock in its blatant forward motion, our mortality
humming like feedback from a speaker marking the moment, which is all there is, so I watch the gray cat pull and push her breath, listen to my husband snoring as
I type each night, when insomnia begs me to hold onto the last possible second
of today, in case of a hiccup in the continuum, in case for someone I love, tomorrow never comes.
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