she was a poet

Been pret­ty fucked up all night over the mur­der of this woman. She was a poet and a fel­low mem­ber of the Acad­e­my. This hurts in a dif­fer­ent way.

☞  Her award-win­ning poem.

RIP Renée Nicole Mackin-Good.

Fuck. All. This. Shit.

Don’t put down your pens. Write as though all our lives de­pend on it.

Be­cause they do.
 

When ICE mur­ders me
read my poems
 
like gunfire
or explosives
 
tie them around
every one of the cowards
mouths
and necks
 
do not let them lie
say my grandfather’s pride
be­came this
mag­got in­fest­ed corpse
 
moments
I’m glad my fa­ther is
al­ready dead
 
their je­sus a killer
god save the poets
 
may min­neapo­lis burn
as many times as it needs
to
 
these are holy flames
 
flick­er­ing to illuminate
her hand­writ­ing on walls
 
of this cage
they are building
for all of us.

 

—an­dru defeye

Flom­mist An­dru De­f­eye is the Emer­i­tus Poet Lau­re­ate of Sacra­men­to. Copy­right © 2026 An­dru De­f­eye. Pho­to source.

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