Monday, August 08, 2011

Such Rainbow (Gratitude Poem #10)

To my beloved sister comrade, conspirator, co-editor, new-age pen-pal, teacher (did I say sister? did I say comrade?) Mai'a Williams and my sweet cyber god-daughter Aza...how many ways do you make my world brighter? Mai'a and Aza you are my touchstone for revolution, my family on the scene, my lightning rod for what revolutionary mothering looks like as a practice on the scale of the universe, of the weather, of the planetary possibility of love. Rainbows in the desert. Mai'a: our relationship reminds me of the truth, that energy is not limited by space or time (or the legality of skype)! Aza: big-haired-cyber-auntie loves you and black feminism lives!!!


Speaking of energetic miracles...look how a farflung community of loved ones is airlifting an ancestor worshiper home into the arms of Audre Lorde with the sheer power of their faith: http://alexispauline.chipin.com/praise-the-lorde-st-croix-dream-trip


such rainbow


For Mai’a and Aza



After Audre Lorde’s “Prism”


no such rainbow

light breaks prayer

listening for plague

peals back skype longing

no such hell

no such wake up bell


untrue


there is a prism

crystal walking

revolutionary refract


there is a vision of pink hair

and cheering

girl voices squared in Tahrir

don’t sleep


if you don’t know

you don’t know


how hustle blows wind to

sand cut clarity

how late nights flame artful into home

how moonlit blessings

from silenced gods

make it all possible


we are taking such brightness to bed

dreams to art

we are choosing to clash open in color

glass our wishes into poems


art to dream late in morning

sand moon into glass

sleeptalking prayer


bruised gift of the future

we are holding it in our fists


burnt tribute of realness

we are wearing it on our faces

we are catalyzing sun


we are waking up ready

for such rainbows as this


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