Signal Boost: Adrienne Maree Brown's 9/11 Poem

[jesse_the_k]

One of these days, I'll post my Think Galacticon notes. Adrienne Maree Brown and N K Jemison were the Honored Guests, and Adrienne's exploration of Octavia Butler's Parable novels as religious text blew my mind wide open.

So I added Ms Brown's thoughts to my Twitter feed Adriennemaree

So today I saw her anniversary writing: http://t.co/XRPK0i7

Here's an excerpt:

I understood everyone that day
every maneuver
I understood the taxi drivers
immediately and perpetually flagged
I understood the broken angry men
who had destroyed my home
I understood the strangers
white men and women
white flesh or white ash
walking up the east side
as I walked down
I understood that whatever they had been
now they were grief

I walked so far that day
maybe I even flew
for all I remember it

we walked so far that day
never looking away
never looking back