Recall The Moon Of All Colors
Recall The Moon Of All Colors
New Moon October 16, 2020
—for Anne Braden & all of us
Remember
*
re-people your crowd
leaf by leaf
carpet forest roof, then floor
wash & scald, scour & wizen
moon after moon
fatigues a smile in the dark
masked teeth, eye flash
the sly monocle of self
directing sunlight into a burning mark
follow her new line (remember)
*
through the sky
EDGE out doubt
the crows crowing of heartbreak
their queer brilliance
their loneliness & triumph
their welcoming other
into the golding flood, go flow
into the death march,
resist
*
what is worth laying down for
is power naked
does Sappho’s fragment speak
do knotted strings speak census numbers
have shivers of fear restrained us
from bottomless love
*
remember the thou of you & us
autumn of courage
cascade of ecology
trilogies of presence
then, then, then…
it comes around again
now
Dedicated to the beginningless lineage of beings who devote their lives to inclusion, justice, equality, compassion, beauty, imagination; who live it as best they can & offer it as a gift to everything in all directions. Remember that we belong to a family of holy beings & re-call in good company our soft songs in midst of howling & thunderous roar. You are not alone, call upon the Earth & your beloveds for support. Be brave & willing to risk it all.
Poem by Qayyum Johnson
Painting by Suiko McCall, suiko.art.
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