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Los Desaparecidos
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Meditations on Marriage
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Amar's "last night" in Roxbury
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Winter Wonderland
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a prayer-poem
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Makaya & Solstice 2023
Sometimes coming home means leaving the place that isn’t. Time is best measured in the most liberatory ways: the cycles of this planet Earth around the…
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a prayer-poem
for the baby born in Gaza under reign of US tax-backed bombs who will survive against all odds and grow up to write the poem that breaks open the…
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for Baba Marcus
sweet is the stillness that welcomes dawn bird calls heralding the sun sunrise over the river each ripple of water reflecting new palettes of color more…
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Los Desaparecidos
Author's Note: I wrote this several (seemingly very long) months ago, and am publishing it today because 1) it captures some element of the gaslighting…
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Saying goodbye to ###
Author's Note: I wrote this in February 2022 as a reflection on the house in which the bulk of my growing up happened; for additional context and…
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You Remind me
Author's Note: Written May 26 2019 and dedicated to all in this settler colony struggling to 'let go' of people or places not loving them as they…
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Nama
Author's Note: It's a few hours late, but this is shared in honor of Haitian Flag Day, though I wrote it around 2008 or 2009.
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BlakBlan’s Substack
One mother-writer-doula-educator-scholar-healer-activist-manbo's reflections, essays, dreams, poetry and fiction about collective liberation, antiracism, history, society, spirituality & religion, Vodou, nature, healing, arts & music, daily life & more!
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