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Our second poetry anthology “What We Hold On To: Poems of Coping, Connection, and Carrying On” is now available to read or download for free at: https://thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/what-we-hold-on-to/
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@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialHonored to share your work, Merril!
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialMerril D. Smith
Bunny Hat
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"Just doing our job,
the masked men say,
using as bait
a boy in a blue bunny hat,
little Liam should have been safe
at home, playing—
just following orders, the masked men
say again,
hoping their regime stays in power."
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@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialSteve Babb
Caged
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"The seconds and the seasons multiply
But she stays mired in eternal now
And zeroed out at midnight’s stroke
And it’s always midwinter in the cockles of her heart"
#poetry #booksky #immigration #detentioncenter #NoKings #ICE #Trump #VOTE
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialEileen McCluskey
What You Can Do For Me
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"You can walk our streets, watching for them.
You may know them by their masks, or their guns.
You can remind me of the hotline number,
and of the rights I am still supposed to have."
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialMeghan Woodward
Coda
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"It all culminates
in this,
masked faces
grabbing brown
people
because they
do jobs
we want
but won’t ever do;
Then magically,
wands in the
wind,
industries get
exceptions
because
capitalism Trumps
humanity—
greed always wins"
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialChad Parenteau
There’s Options
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"All orders are clear and never
wrong. And if any orders
seem to contradict, then do them
in the order heard, give in
to confusion then collapse."
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialMichelle DeRose
Morning Ghosts
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"Five-dollar breakfast on a plastic tray.
A dark-eyed family slips
into the booth behind, whispers
in Spanish, mutes even the crinkles
unwrapping their muffins."
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialDelores Gilmore
Donde esta Eduardo? Yo no se
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"Fear tastes like
Cotton candy strawberries
Rotting in the fields
After the raid
Fear tastes like
Salty tears and
Empty fruit stands
At the farmers market
Donde esta Eduardo?
Yo no se"
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@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialJulissa
R. Yael Weissburg
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"That day outside the courtroom when you fell into my arms ...
I didn’t realize how quickly I’d come to love you,
in our broken sentences, our tightly held hands,
our reassuring touch when we ran out of words."
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialThe Interpreter
R. Yael Weissburg
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"What is it like, I wonder, to know someone’s fate before they do?
To translate their future into existence?
To be its messenger?"
#poetry #LaPoesía #chapbook #immigration #ICE #NoKings #booksky
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@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialEspejo Roto / Broken Mirror
Sofía Reyes
"mis papeles dicen que existo,
que soy real
pero el miedo no sabe leer,
no pide documentos"
...
"my papers say I exist
that I am real
but fear doesn’t know how to read
doesn’t ask for documents"
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialKeep an eye out for our #paperback copies to drop online and in #bookstores soon, but in the meantime please take a look at our free online version - and don't forget to #VOTE!!!
#books #poetry #booksky #writing #protest #NoKings #resist #ICE #Trump #FDT #immigration #ReneeNicoleGood #AlexPretti
@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialWe will be posting poems from the chapbook daily both here and on the website. Stayed tuned for paperback copies! #resist
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@chaossectionpoetry.bsky.socialWe just received the custom painting for the third book's cover from Bonner Fowles and WOW! It's stunning and meaningful. We are so excited to share it with you all very soon.
