Who Said It Was Simple
By Audre Lorde, 1934-1992, U.S. There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear.Sitting in Nedicksthe …
A poem inspired by reconciliation
By Patricia Heintzman, published in the Squamish Chief, July 31, 2017. (Source: https://www.squamishchief.com/opinion/columnists/column-a-poem-inspired-by-reconciliation-1.21387842) Truth. Reconciliation. Is more than an apology and deprecation, a prayer to …
Barter
By Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933, U.S. Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things,Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that …
We Wear The Mask
By Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906, U.S. We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to …
Incident
By Countee Cullen, 1903-1946, U.S. Once riding in old Baltimore,Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,I saw a BaltimoreanKeep looking straight at me.Now I was eight and very …
The Virus
By Jericho Brown, 2018, U.S. Dubbed undetectable, I can’t killThe people you touch, and I can’tBlur your viewOf the pansies you’ve plantedOutside the window, meaningI …
Little Prayer
By Danez Smith, 2017, U.S. let ruin end here let him find honeywhere there was once a slaughter let him enter the lion’s cage& find …
A Litany For Survival
By Audre Lorde, 1934-1992, U.S. For those of us who live at the shorelinestanding upon the constant edges of decisioncrucial and alonefor those of us …
Cross
By Langston Hughes. Submitted by Ed and Ada Smith of Windsor. My old man’s a white old manAnd my old mother’s black.If ever I cursed …
Echolalia
By Ian Williams, b.1979, Canada. Once one gets what one wants one no longer wants it. One no longer wants what? One no longer wants …