Raising the oars of our flagwe drift past all the bodies that make up the childhood of our history past all the lives that had to becrushed to create wealth Oars down into resistancewe pull towards the cities that first dreamed us even as they fill with glaciersof blood-iceeven as they threaten to sink this outcast rowing-boat of libertythat is moved by many many hands
Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist based in San Francisco, California. His most recent chapbooks are, Poet as Naturalist (Raven and Wren Press), How Love Sustains Us (Barley Books (U.K.)) and War News (daily poems responding to the first three months of the genocidal war in Gaza), which appeared as a free online ebook published by Agitate! Journal. Published this year is a second volume in the War News series, War News II (12/9/23 - 6/3/24), published by fmsbw press in San Francisco.
