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Nancy James in Response to Kristen Hanlon

​File under: L and R
Because there is so much love in resistance

 
 
It takes care to change
To want to change, or to keep
To change as in becoming human
To keep as in keeping the meadow a meadow after all
And what may lie beneath may stay beneath because
Our time is up
 
I want to gather your losses strand by strand
And braid them into swirls about your head
I want to call them ours because they are and
Pop open the umbrellas as the clouds move in
 
We can lead the second line back now
The streets have cleared and I’ve opened another bottle
The scientists are gathered in groups of three
Reverent in knowing and not knowing
We just shake our heads
They think we’re still dancing
 
 

​Nancy Johnson James is a poet and educator in Oakland, CA. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and has an MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California. One of the poetic highlights of her life was being a part of the first class of Poetry for the People with June Jordan as an auditing student at UC Berkeley way back in the day. She believes the world needs artists to envision a free and just future for us all. 

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