Author’s Note on Structure
This sequence is constructed as a triptych a work composed of three distinct interrelated parts, designed to be read together as a unified whole). The first poem establishes the recognition quatrains-a lyric grounded in shared condition, proximity, and inherited survival.
The second poem advances based quatrains, shifting from recognition to action: gathering, refusal of imposed division; ethics of remaining. The voice tightens; the stakes become social and lived.
The final poem operates as coda: (a concluding section that does not resolve but extends the work) not a resolution.
It compresses: aftermath, continuation, privileging endurance, practice, and proximity over closure. The sequence: naming, to commitment, to sustaining.
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Interstice I: Recognition
We meet in the in-between before fear memorizes our names where inherited hands are borrowed
prayers, we recognize survival in each other.
Your grief does not need translation.
We share the same aftertaste-what is swallowed to keep the peace. I will hold your rage without reshaping it.You will hold my exhaustion without fixing it.
These things are not burdens-we are forced to carry them alone. They tell us we are opposed; draw borders as if the ground obeys; for water claims that we insist on permanence.
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#ARW-RAW | Artisstree I
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Interstice Il: Commitment
The brief trust of a shared moment we build what power cannot name: belonging without permission. As we calculate safety in public spaces. We see each other tense at familiar sounds.
We recognize the arithmetic of endurance and how often it is misread as fault.
So we gather. We feed one another in imperfect ways. We argue, return, remain
-because separation is the oldest tactic.
Let them call this naive.
I would rather choose connection than master the logic of hunger-strangled and congratulated. Come as you are. I will do the same. We will sit with what is unfinished. And slowly-without spectacle-learn to say each other's pain until it begins to sound like shelter.
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Ms. AWashing(on/ @arwashington
#ARW-RAW | Artisstree I
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Interstice III: Sustainability
What remains is not agreement nor presence-the decision to stay near even when certainty withdraws. We learned the cost of distance and deference. How easily it is taught-how often it is rewarded with silence and false order.
This is something else. Not unity, not innocence- just the daily discipline of not turning away; while many suffer.
We do not dissolve our differences.
We place them carefully between us like tools on a shared table; gratitude in our protest and protection.
There will be days this feels insufficient.
There will be days it is. Still, we return-this practice of standing together without erasing ourselves.And if history asks what saved us let the answer be small; exact: we chose proximity over permission against sacrifice-we unified.
We shall keep choosing it-long enough for us all to matter.
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Ms. AWashing(on/ @arwashington
#ARW-RAW I /A #Solseed Joint |AskAngge
Author’s Note on Structure:
This sequence is constructed as a
#triptych a work composed of three
distinct interrelated parts, designed
to be #read together as a unified
whole.
Done in part: #Cassiopeian
#Prompt #connection #resistance
And A #Solseed Joint #prose #poetry #BlackWriters #BlackPoets
