To Bear the Right

who were these goddesses

^{translated by Samantha Schnee}

They were so called because they wore god’s mask, and be-
cause their faces and hearts were resolute as stone. For days,
years, they walked with jade beneath their tongues, seeking
home. They worked the land and bejeweled their bodies. Not

Jeannette L. Clariond

2022

And So Many Are Dear

When you’re called,
you go, Sesshu says.
But I’m afraid
I won’t go far enough
to stop them
even though
people are dying.
And even though
people are dying,
I remain
Chicana, a woman
who won’t keep
this mouth,
or the other, shut.
So should I
get out of bed
to write?
Does what I
write matter?
Sesshu says: reread
Oscar Zeta Acosta’s
The Revolt of the Cockroach People.
Then I remember:
when you’re
called,
you go.

Diana Marie Delgado

2025

Audience

1

People think, at the theatre, an audience is tricked into believing it's looking at life.

The film image is so large, it goes straight into your head.

There's no room to be aware of or interested in people around you.

Girls and cool devices draw audience, but unraveling the life of a real human brings the
outsiders.

I wrote before production began, "I want to include all of myself, a heartbroken person
who hasn't worked for years, who's simply not dead."

Many fans feel robbed and ask, "What kind of show's about one person's unresolved 
soul?"


2

There's sympathy for suffering,

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

2003

Poems

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To Bear the Right

who were these goddesses

And So Many Are Dear

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