2020

Alone in broad daylight, 
my mask pulled tight 
A neighbor's breath is near. 

My loves, all turned to ghosts,
go nowhere fast,
Their pain will last for years

Police murder George Floyd
Anger erupts
Summer streets are seared

Black lives taken each day
We say their names, 
Uncertain who will hear

2021

New year’s insurrection
White power play
Dog whistles call and cheer

No consequences seen
Emboldens those
Who love the king of jeer

Ida’s remnants arrive
Tornados bloom
Sirens jar inner ear

Vine street expressway flood
A river born
We drown in nature’s tears

2022

Don’t say gay Florida
Control what’s taught
Deny that we are queer

School active shooter drills
Are make-believe
Until the news appears

Supreme court overturns
Roe versus Wade
The right that we hold dear

Proverb says that hindsight’s 
20/20
True, the nightmare is clear


_______________________

Awaken us from terrors!
Our movement without peer
Our future glowing brighter
Toward our vision steer!

Black joy is multiplying
Queer liberators rise
“Me too” chorus resounding
Lay bare the kingdoms lies

Old paradigm collapsing
The capitalist plot
The workers are uniting
Unlearning all you taught

Clarion call of poets
Truth murals on the streets
Afro-futurisms thrive
Revolutionary beats

The virus multiplying
Not just the kind that kills
Infectious liberation
Rewiring our wills

We’re troubling our troubles
We understand the cage
Revealing all that’s hidden
Transmogrifying rage

Not something in our future
These seedlings in the earth
We cultivate this garden
Midwife our vision’s birth