Remedy
by Angel Dominguez
[Elizabeth Soto, Associate Editor: There is an inherent lineage that accompanies a recipe, a cure, a remedy. Angel is gifting us with that lineage here, a call to survive, to tear down and rebuild. They ask us to hear the “song of reckoning” in our survival, in our forward movement.]
Eat the heart of your oppressor con un habanero.
Add some salt y limón to taste.
Tear every prison down.
Open community gardens
where they once existed.
I do not understand the gestures of capital.
I have only seen success in our survival,
y amor, how we survive is a song of reckoning.