Letters on Interbeing
Interbeing with Katerina Jeng
Re-Election Tenderness
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Re-Election Tenderness

your only assignment right now is to feel

Sharing my process, tips for re-sourcing during this difficult time, and a poem. Sending so much love & care to you 💞

Re-Election

by Katerina Jeng

bigotry & misogyny are chosen
by America, and I’m not at all surprised—
the America I woke to is the same
America I parted with in the night 

yet the grief, the disbelief
still smacks my cheek like a November storm
like salt-crusted ice that refuses to melt
in a season when the flurry is relentless

today I saw a congregation of crows
dozens of midnight wings 
rustling on pillows of snow—a murder
has never gathered on my street like this

I touch my trembling heart—
bird of aliveness beating
in the palm of my hand

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