"We are the song that sings us."


-Gloria E. Anzaldúa



from "Let Us be the Healing of the Wound: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative--La Sombra y El Sueño" in the anthology One Wound for Another/Una Herida Por Otra

To the States
By Walt Whitman


To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States,
Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty.