
WRITE
You are read
Your body
Inscribed with your personal history, your ancestral lineage
You are read
Beside other bodies, place, power
You are read
Gestures of your supposed racial, gendered, sexual truths
Reiterated and reiterated and reiterated….
Adrienne Rich writes: “This is the oppressor’s language yet I need it to talk to you.”
Reiterated and reiterated and reiterated….
READ
You write your body
Against the weight of history
Within the instances of liminality
Against the power dynamics that precede and outlive it
Within the gaps between assumed and assigned identity
Each phrase forms its own dialogue.
Each verse reversed, inversed, conversed.
Each passage you write a passing in between.