to Angela Davis
a free verse poem for Crucible: the stone womb of elderhood
2 min readApr 15, 2023
“What would it mean, instead of being an elderly woman, to be an elder woman?” —Sharon Blackie, Hagitude
when you say ants create
architecture with soil
and don’t destroy the earth
and you follow that up
with transformation in capitalism
has always meant destruction
and you walk out
from behind the podium
with a…
