{"id":3258,"date":"2019-11-18T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2019-11-18T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:14:25","slug":"nov-18-a-different-oral-argument-maria-ibarra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/11\/18\/nov-18-a-different-oral-argument-maria-ibarra\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 18 – “a different oral argument” Maria Ibarra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, November 18 \u00a0– about the US Supreme Court hearing on DACA, November 12<\/p>\n

Readers of the \u201cWork Day in a Hard Time\u201d Poetry List may well remember Maria Ibarra\u2019s first post to the list (August 29, 2018). \u00a0The poem gripped our readership with c. 4 times as many comments than any other post since the list began in September 2013: her title: \u00a0\u00a0\u201cwhat it means to be Catholic when you\u2019re a young, liberal, feminist . . .\u201d<\/p>\n

NB \u00a0We concluded the August 29 post with a postscript written by the author.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaria is the Southeast Michigan regional organizer for We the People Michigan. She immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico when she was nine years old and grew up Southwest Detroit and Dearborn. Maria has been fighting for immigrant justice for almost a decade, including grassroots organizing and political advocacy. She works closely with grassroots organizations to create alternative systems of immigrant-centered support and working to put people of color and women in positions of leadership. Maria graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy with a degree in English, and then went on to get a Masters of Social Work at the University of Michigan. On her free time Maria likes going for hikes, drinking expensive tea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week Maria wrote again, this time about the November 12 US Supreme Court hearing on DACA immigrants. \u00a0 The court has not yet released its formal conclusion.<\/p>\n

Have a blessed week,<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post: \u00a0 \u201dA Different Oral Argument\u201d<\/strong> by Maria Ibarra<\/p>\n

Today, November 12, the US Supreme Court
\nis hearing oral arguments on DACA.
\nArguments on whether this pro-life
\nCountry
\nWill let me keep the life
\nI lead.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to argue.
\nI don\u2019t want to talk to them.
\nThe only people I want to talk to are
\nOther undocumented young people
\nMany with DACA, many without.<\/p>\n

So this is to you, my loves.
\nWe are not an argument.
\nWe are warm honey
\nAnd the smell of cinnamon sticks
\nSimmering on the stove late at night.<\/p>\n

We are sweet like guava fruit,
\nAnd prickly like cactus in the sun.
\nRipe with possibility, wrapped
\nIn self-protection.<\/p>\n

We are powerful like our mothers,
\nWho break English in order to survive it.
\nWe are gentle like our fathers
\nholding their new grandsons for the first time.<\/p>\n

We are not an oral argument.<\/p>\n

We are poetry dancing in the streets,
\nHymns reminding us that
\nWe survive each day despite
\nA military state trying to crush us.<\/p>\n

How amazing it is that we are still here.
\nPowerful, and kind,
\nAnd beautiful, and yes
\nResilient.
\nBut most importantly
\nMy dears
\nMost importantly, we are loved.
\nWe are loved by our families and communities
\nWho crossed oceans and deserts
\nTo give us this life.
\nThis love is stronger than a supreme court decision, stronger than ICE,
\nStronger than foolish
\nArguments about whether or not we deserve to stay.<\/p>\n

We already stayed. Now it’s time to live.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/ssw.umich.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/ce\/mgif<\/a><\/p>\n

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