Ode to Fannie Lou

 

-------Ode to Fannie Lou-------

 

Complicity complicates 

the idea 

of freedom

 

Calling into question 

incarceration,

the homestead and borders

 

As projects 

of an occupying 

nation.

 

Is it possible

to be liberated, oneself,

while others remain in chains,

 

To live unbound from ongoing conquest

as a settler on 

unceded land?

 

Is it possible 

to here belong

and not confront the dis-belonging?

 

I do not know

or seek

an answer

 

But question

rather

to disrupt indifference

 

And make some room

for more

to see

 

That no one is

until

all are free.

 

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