What Can’t Be Taken

Poem by Andrea Gibson

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Trauma was not being
able to get the hands
of the clock off me.

Healing was learning
no one has ever laid a fingerprint
on the part of me that's infinite.

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Andrea Gibson

Andrea Gibson (they/them/theirs) is a queer author of five full-length collections of poetry. Their book Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry, 20… Learn more

This article is part of Issue #11

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Coexistance/ Regeneration / Inclusion

This issue covers envisioning a resilient future with Rob Hopkins, dreaming in science fiction, kinship with the more-than-human world, an intervie…

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