Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.
What I leave behind has a life of its own.
Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
Oppression is as American as apple pie.