June!

Commissions and comics and crises! Oh my!

I meant to have pictures of the work I made
throughout June
on my website by now.

In the absence
of this evidence
you will just have to trust that
I was busy
And made beautiful things.

The heat dome.
We wore T-shirts
Ate picnics on the beach
And worried
And turned towards
those who
Rebel against our Extinction

It was the longest day.
The same day fascists announced
a march through
the city.

Pride is a protest.

I am proud
to love
the woman
I love.
I will fight
To love her
forever.

Proof of Genocide
Keeps being spread
at the feet of those
in power.
And still
our government refuses to
Stop Arming Israel

A mysterious disappearance.
A trilogy of short films.
A pocket full of severed hands
and a mouth full of
hair and river water.

I am writing stories.

There is next to nothing
In the national news
about the white man
who made it from one side of Edinburgh
to the other
Attacking Muslims
with a machete.

There is so much
violently powerful hate
In the world
Still the streets filled and filled with
Queers, Anti-Fascists, Anti-Racists.
There is always hope
In the sound of our voices raised
Together.