Dominique Christina

-------Dominique Christina-------

Your work is like a Yarrow seed that seeks the battered earth to set its roots into.

Its tiny, fragrant flowers and leaves becoming
to reflect the nature of the medicine within;
a tonic for the blood

that has thickened in the veins of this country.

Your work is the vocation of a poet walking
barefoot across stones to the spring.

A truth of word and water pure draws the light from its source
and into a cup,
for us all to share.

Dear, brave resistor

I thank you for not going passively through this life

but rather for filling your seed pouch
with its many graces

and healing our wounds with your voice.

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