Stonewall Inn, 1969

by Rachel Whitfield

Art by Chloe Hogan

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Heavily you rest

in the palm, gentle

brick, ‘til we witness

your audacious flight,

the breakage of bone.

Build us back up with

blood, mud, and birdsong;

teach us to soar through

the hopeful skies as

you do, canny brick.

No barrier can

hold its ranks against

your magnificent

arch, your striking and

strange liberation.

But how they will try.

Chloe Hogan, Wildfire, painting

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