‘(All I know is) Resilience’

Photographer Sierra Lynn is a crossgenre writer and multimedia artist from Drexel, Ohio. Through experimental encounters, inconsistent recollections, and personal sentiments, they utilize memory as a resource to revisit, reinvent, and redefine the past. Their creative work has been featured in The Passionfruit Review and Fork Apple Press.

(All I know is) Resilience

settle in

this is the hill on which I plan to die

born of sin

underneath a summer night's sky

unapologetic in the sunlight

let my love wash over you like a thousand little waves

Hayden Winston is a multilingual, bisexual, Caribbean writer and activist. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in organizational leadership at UNC Chapel Hill. His work draws on his experiences growing up in Los Angeles as the queer son of West Indian immigrants. His poetry has featured in The Caribbean Writer, In Parentheses, and Terror House Press.