"The capacity of a community to tell the truth about their past is a test for how the future will be enacted." --Pádraig Ó Tuama, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World, writing about "Battlegrounds" by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo https://poets.org/poem/battlegrounds

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