This year I will do a seasonal poet focus and I will kick the year off with the powerful intersectional feminist Audre Lorde.
This seems apt considering that Audre Lorde is known for her powerful critiques of social injustice and in 2025 where differences are being ignored and sadness and hurt regarding injustice loom ahead, focuses on the words and works of this powerful legendary goddess feels right.
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| source: nytimes |
Born: February 18, 1934, Harlem, New York, NY
Died: November 17, 1992 (age 58 years), Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Intersectional feminist, poet, scholar, professor, civil rights activist
if you come softly
If you come as softly
As win within the trees
You may hear what I hear
See what sorrow sees.
If you come as lightly
As threading dew
I will take you gladly
Nor ask more of you.
You may sit beside me
Silent as a breath
Only those who stay dead
Shall remember death.
And if you come I will be silent
Nor speak harsh words to you.
I will not ask you why, now.
Or how, or what you do.
We shall sit here, softly
Beneath two different years
And the rich earth between us
Shall drink our tears.
-Audre Lorde
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