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On Academia (an abecedarian)

by Luna Dragon Mac-Williams

Abstractions don’t split
body from soul from
corner of 23rd and Washtenaw.

Distance is danger is
every conversation
fixated on a them.

Groundfolk can live
heralded by we and by
interpersonal, can
jettison the I.

Known by
living,
made for
needing,
owned by
people, their
question,
resistance,
song.

There is worth
under shadow, in
vein,
wisdom in
xenia.
You can never
zip up and leave.


Luna Dragon Mac-Williams is a poet, playwright, actor, dancer, handmade jeweler, zine editor, and arts educator at After School Matters, a non-profit in her hometown of Chicago. She is an undergraduate student at Wesleyan University and a narrator and writer for The Ice Colony podcast. She has recently been published in Ariel’s Dream, and her poetry appears in the 2020 KCBS Zine. Her one-act, Good Strong Coffee, premiered at Chicago Dramatists through Pegasus Theater in winter 2018. She is a firm believer in the power of coffee, community care, house parties, and helping youth honor and share their personal narratives. Find her on Instagram at @lalunadragon and @bylunawithlove.

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