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Karen Pierce Gonzalez

@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social

7 months ago

after hours museum statues of bare breasted women, stoned into silence silenced by stone, cramped in candle lit corners drip tears for cracked ribs, broken limbs; waxy ghost arms and legs puppet-dance with shadows. From the rafters red winged blackbirds swoop down, build nests in the braids of their once hennaed hair.

Wow, what a prompt! No need to say more. Will let this #PoemsAbout #WaxTears speak for itself. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Thanks for: #ReadRepostReply. #PoetsSupportPoets #KeepCreative #PoetsOfBlueSky

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social

8 months ago

Texas Cottonwood My soft gray lumber walled this Black American church, a home you bastards burnt not to resurrect but to bury in ashes. Breastfed on blood distilled from shackling stolen people, thorn-yoked, in cages, you lit torches and sang Hell no, you aren’t free! Hell no, you aren’t free! My smooth branched roof charcoals the ground a young artist scours, gathering to his slave-descendant chest braised bits of bone, chipped teeth, seared splinters of hope to build an altar syllable by syllable, from beloved family names now forever out of your filthy reach, in the chapel of my yellow-green leaf canopy. Karen Pierce Gonzalez

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