ammunition advocacy
still wild to me
the man after dancing
and drought-sought downpour
"at least you're a white woman
who looks me in the eye"
talk rungs climb to
transfiguration beyond gender
a teacher said you
women need guns and
study how to shoot
not hesitate historical
force implies that everyone
has one in West Philadelphia
windows a parallel religious
text I submit to editorial
conspiracy that slices
sound volatizes the inner
ear full testimony failed
to read ethnicity's face-
down interpreters my lovers
in the diasporic loom or
mountainside could I could I
kid you martial
arts could kill or
defend but add it to
weapons and be secure
says my heart's marginal
a kid could be anyone
or yours would be a
trespassing poet second-rate
subtitles to my formerly
masculine throat easy reel
explosion role if you take
my hand deliberately
is that a safe space
is that our signatures intertwined
"hate-crime" and "love-crime"
and I'll-defend-your-peace-of-mind
suddenly tele-visible
open-air stadiums
promise-keeping better begetters
don't aberrate a crazy american
method of driving
behind an expanding
problem emergency now
the line is scored
the battery spent
a face I ask for
motivated sight