Two hummingbirds, hovering, stuck to each other, arcing the… - Lorna Dee Cervantes

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Two hummingbirds, hovering, stuck to each other,
arcing their bodies in grim determination
to find what is good, what is
given them to find. These are warriors
distancing themselves from history.
They find peace
in the way they contain the wind
and are gone.

Lorna Dee Cervantes

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Lorna Dee Cervantes (born August 6, 1954) is a figure in .

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When I first went to Mexico in 1974 and was involved in Chicano teatro—Mexican American guerilla theater—I realized that my politics and my poetry could merge; suddenly it wasn’t just for me. Before then, I didn’t share this poetry; I kept it in notebooks…

She would not be
silent and still.
She would live,
arrogantly,
having wrestled
her death
and won.

I have learned the serenity
of a mockingbird, the justice
of a crow, blue jay's strength;
I've dipped their feathers in blood
to seal the pact—my path.

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