Resuscitate
Book Cover Image ID:
Jordan's head turned upwards ,eyes closed . Messy brown hair falls to shoulders
Back cover:
ln white letters
Self published chapbook
“An ode to the power of claiming survivorhood in a world where our bodies are weaponized against us. Resuscitate speaks to the journey of facing the ghosts of trauma, mental illness and patriarchy: how intersectional feminism brought this survivor back to the land of the living.”
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Core image:
Jordan's head turned upwards ,eyes closed . Messy brown hair falls to shoulders
Back cover:
ln white letters
fLet me braid jasmine into your hair,
root you below the redwood trees
that raised us
-Love Letter to Myself
below that:
Raise your hand
if you’ve had to raise up the animal in you to survive.
We become gritted teeth,
bodies they only see when they want us,
They hunt us because we are their nightmares.
The witch in us is hotter than their fire,
-Hell Hath No Fury Like Witches Who Didn't Burn
On front cover, in white letters:
Resuscitate
Poems by Jordan Wilson-Dalzell
Poetry Videos
Definition of Rape Culture
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The men in this poem have many names
He is the sore loser from class, who to get back at me,
outs my sexual abuse to my baby brother
the guy who calls himself a feminist because it gets more tinder matches
the wedding guest who thinks rape jokes are icebreakers
the guy who scares away creeps in alleyways and demands dates as payment
The guys in this poem are probably sitting in this room
Always demanding femmes explain rape culture to you, right now
What you are asking for is an execution.
-A Definition of Rape Culture
Crooked bones, failed bridges
Water never needed to
stretch far to hold me.
-Sea-Born
People keep asking me when I got sick
As if they’ve ever known me healthy
-Mythology Of Disease
my eyes,
windows abandoned
Friends bolting out the door at first whiff of trauma
-Shelter
Learning how to let myself
be water and earth
-Self-Care
Anxiety is siren
singing to my body
Begging it
to shed my skin
-Waterwounds
My femme family line
is so used to fitting ourselves
into to someone else’s
planter box
And calling this self improvement
-Motherline
Poetry
Definition Of Rape Culture