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Narisma is a multimodal creator from the Philippines who is fascinated with cultural memory, queer erotics, and spiritual restitution. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Margins, Gordon Square Review, and Pollux Journal, among others. He flits between Manila, New York, and everywhere in between.
Liberty always comes with a price. For my mother,
This meant death. For me, this meant loneliness.
We’re good at our jobs, even if no one thanks us.
Like many things, I suspect that not all poetry is political, but rather, all poetry can be politicized, by virtue of the social context in which a poet or their work exists.