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genesis-27073	Ivey, Mariah	Rest and Fire, Black Child	2023	1	.pdf	application/pdf	181	3	32	15 Rest and Fire, Black Child Mariah Ivey may you dance as if the fire is beneath you chassé your fears into plied position scorching pavements with radical affirmation promising to always be kind to yourself may you burn down broken systems tethered to Black tears Emmett Tills and ticking timebombs, only to ring-shout your way into safe spaces of emotional release may you awaken without apology on your tongue but joy beneath your wings laughing as if healing and resistance share one body may you remember your body—not as America’s sacrificial lamb but as a harmonious vessel of ancestral hymns singing songs of sweetness and soul liberation will come from a Black thing may your palms, as they are, blessed with golden warmth and grandmama’s prayers, hold vinyl record memories worth replaying on Sundays may your days feel a lot warmer there not as an escape of your reality but an extension of the reimagined ease belongs to you ease has always belonged to you rest and fire. rest and fire, Black child.	cache/genesis-27073.pdf	txt/genesis-27073.txt