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Chantel Kelly
November 30, 2022

Toxic Healing by Sara Borjas

Chantel Kelly
November 30, 2022
Toxic Healing by Sara Borjas

Still, I long to meet my healing / language in county, or the dive bar / built in my mother’s eyes./ In my grandma’s rasquach-ass / backyard, toilets torrential / with cacti. Between bird houses / my uncle builds with scrap wood / painted with “section 8 okay.”

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Chantel Kelly
November 30, 2022

from ars pasifika by Craig Santos Perez

Chantel Kelly
November 30, 2022
from ars pasifika by Craig Santos Perez

our villages singed to ash / our voices endure

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