i am telling you now:
pick up your picket sign, your power is guaranteed
in the center of your chest your heart beats to one chord
a distant sound wave carried from outer space, or a force pulling your matter towards mine
watch as plastic towers pushing towards the sky melt-burn-tumble
wrap your hands around community
grow love like tomatoes in a side garden
grow love like it’s your last day to breathe
prepare for blast off, we are skipping stones to new realities
follow radiant stars pointing north to pluto as it transits aquarius
dwarf planet, craterous and mountainous
stark with renewal
shed this skin, this life, crusty and dry
pick at pustules boiling over with nuclear brimstone and hatred
bleed these wounds until there are no wars
no soot falling, microscopic destruction of the lungs
every part of your body is star-kissed
we are from the same luminous black implosion, a cloud of solar gas and dust
we are vibrating in pools of light and shadow together
our trees we planted 54 years ago, roots singing for revolution
reaching, reaching for tectonic movement they cannot yet touch
unearthing that towers are built on shifting sand not lithospheric rock
the only thing guaranteed is our future
i am here from that distant infinite
to tell you that we win, come hell or highwater
we win
as long as you keep your head to the sky
we win
dreaming in our collective spell for change
folkloric spark to remember: your existence is pure
pure joy, starlight on the deepest night
dust from another plane
born again, and again
election after election
dictator after dictator
misery crumbles, giants do die
the bigger they are, the harder they fall
what is loosed in the heavens
will be loosed on earth
in the great come down heaven has always had your name
but if you cannot settle for distant constellations
look around, heaven is an old growth forest
leaves whispering age hardened secrets
look around, heaven is electromagnetic force
the magic of what we can’t see
look around, heaven is a walk with a friend
pearlescent affirmations for your existence here and now
pick up your picket sign, your power is guaranteed
yes, the past is painful, the present is precarious, but the future is free
