it is not enough to
whisper our discontent
to write to each other
with gaping mouths
we are not observers
we are no audience
at stake is our freedom
it races the miles
of our sacred bodies
without it we cannot claim
to be holy, to be human
our no makes the only way
for our necessary yes
what do we have to have
right now
in this breath
a blessing on your slowed work
a blessing on your boundaries
a blessing on your no
a blessing on your filibusters
a blessing on your judgements
a blessing on your lawsuits
a blessing on your marches
a blessing on your platformed risks
a blessing on your passing the wisdom
a blessing on your public stands
a blessing on your private ones
a blessing on your thefts
from fascist corporations
a blessing on your radical art
a blessing on your rebel call
a blessing on your altar work
a blessing on your ancestors
and the songs they pour through you
a blessing on your dignity
a blessing on your duty
a blessing on your children
our children, all of them ours
a blessing on your subversive care
a blessing on your masks and meds
a blessing on your passing for safety
a blessing on your safe houses
a blessing on every sanction — defy us!
a blessing on your constitution
a blessing on your state’s rights
a blessing on your strikes
a blessing on your tax resistance
a blessing on your sit-ins and blockades
a blessing on your shutdowns
a blessing on your security systems
a blessing on your stealth communications
a blessing on your sabotage
a blessing on your walkouts
a blessing on heart-based secession
a blessing on your family tables
a blessing in your therapist’s soul
a blessing on your community deepening
a blessing on your pods and mycelium
a blessing on your seed banks
a blessing on the land you love
a blessing on the truths you teach
a blessing on the books you save
a blessing on the truths you tell
a blessing on our dream of democracy
only realized through our everyday bodies
a blessing on the people
who were only given the earth