“The Coyote Gospel,” Animal Man #5 Reprise

Poetry
Written By Emie H.

“Live simply, 

live humbly, 

and in a balanced way,

for the sake 

of all that live.”

— Animal Man Issue #18, “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” by Grant Morrison 


“What ARE we? 

And if we’re just characters in a story, then who makes the stories?

Who makes us suffer this way?

Who writes the world?” 

— Animal Man Issue #24, “Purification Day”. 


I am.

And here is where I am.

No mankind.

Bodiless.

I am free. 

Everything.

Senseless.

Us.

I am. 

And here is where I am,

finally;

Unburied, 

Unhanded,

Unencumbered. 

Inarticulate,

except in love. 

Enchanted,

in both presence

and absence.

I am.

Us.

“One Last Flight” Art by Travel Foreman

Emie H.

Emie H. (they/she) is newly a barista, meaning she is ever closer to the ideal of that oh so coveted “life of the struggling writer” fantasy.

Admittedly, though, they love living in that fantasy if it means doing what they love all of the time. Especially if “what they love'' just so happens to also include fighting against oppression. In that vein, they’ve come to think of writing as both a powerful weapon and as a tool for remedy.

She hopes to help themself, and anyone who might read her work to remember and learn what their voice can accomplish.

At the very least, they hope that people feel heard in her work.

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