This Is What Makes Us Worlds
Like light but
in reverse we billow.
We turn a corner
and make the hills
disappear.
You rearrange
my parts until no
more hurting.
No more skin-sunk
nighttime fear.
No more blameless death.
My hair loses its atoms.
My body glows
in the dark.
Planets are smashed
into oblivion,
stripped of their power
to name things.
Our love fills the air.
Our love eats
the deadly sounds men
make when they see
how much magic
we have away
from them.
Copyright Credit: J. Jennifer Espinoza, "This Is What Makes Us Worlds" from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. Copyright © 2017 by J. Jennifer Espinoza. Reprinted by permission of J. Jennifer Espinoza.