Elaine Brown reveals how in 1974 she came to be the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party – and talks about revolution, resistance and activism today
— Read on www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/27/activist-elaine-brown-you-must-be-willing-to-die-for-what-you-believe-in

no offense but i really held you down
and it really wasn’t vice-versa

so 

if our love was what we said it was why?
can’t i reach you? can’t i teach me
differently? can’t we see it clearly?

if our love was what we said it was
it shouldn’t be quite done 
well not for me to decide
but that’s how it feel 

if our love was what we said it was
why? 

when i bare my teeth to you
it’s like baring my skin 
or my heart
see?

i’ve worn all my rage and lust
and love on my sleeve for so long
there is no alternative to that
once you begin

that’s why the poets say
beware! beware of me!
fairly or not

when i bare myself to you
is it like leaving you
for the very last time

The calm, 
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss. 
— Read on www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147906/suicide39s-note

a land a land a land 
loving you gives me
a land a land a land
loving you gives me 
a land a land a land
loving you gives me 
a land a land a land
loving you gives me 
a land loving a land
loving a land loving
a land loving a land
loving you gives me 
a land a land a land
loving you gives me
a land a land a land

When a human being spends eleven years of their lives in the forest, braving the elements and using their bodies to physically fight for the freedom …

Field Marshall Muthoni, the woman.

the postponed love 
in the postponed city
was preplanned by
postdisaster specialists

the postcollapse love
in the postcollapse city
will be preplanned by
the rest of us 

the priority will shift 
when we prioritize 
our prior commitments 
to each other 
or perish