my immediate cuba ten

points for further expansion from the delegation

“Es sueno de…” by cuban artist Leonor Jorge Vergara (1944), meaning “it’s a dream of.” displayed at the San Severino Castle in Matanzas, Cuba where she is based.

three hours ago i got home from an agricultural delegation in cuba. im feeling about

1. everyone that the united states has ever punished for wanting to be free.

2. the ocean is a color.

3. what it takes to produce a banana and all of the affection between people to make it so.

4. the capacity for relationships to recover dreaming.

5. ignorance as empire’s resource.

6. what are black american’s role(s?) in black diasporic international solidarity?

7. black women dressed in white

8. the texture of heat

9. acknowledging mundane care / thankyouthankyouthankyou

10. it roots when it’s pleasurable

a voice note from the day before i left.