rivers of colonizer blood

Poetry 1 Minute

After “Exterminate All the Brutes” by Sven Lindqvist.

your vision
framed by planks salvaged from a ransacked village

wrinkles in your brain
wagon wheel tracks across the plains

your home 
warmed by the flames of broken treaties

the tump-tump in your chest
bullets entering temples

your veins
rivers of colonizer blood

Published by M. Espinosa

He/they. I teach English at a junior high school in western Washington. Outside of work, I worry about a myriad of things and spend time outside.

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