Endarkenment(s)
by Omenyi Tangelo
I’ve been dreaming of a black(ened) world; a world governed by the moon. Black(ened) skies adorning the city’s streets; black(ened) skies communing with black(ened) soil. I’ve been dreaming of a black(ened) world; a world governed by black(ened) life. Black(ened) bodies, in motion, giving rhythm to the post-apocalyptic. Black(ened) Peoples experiencing the mundane and/or the profane under no gaze from above. I’ve been dreaming of a black(ened) world; a world governed by what’s dark(est); a world of no shadows to betray Presence; a world of no kings, no gods but for the moon’s caprice; a world where they speak of endarkenment(s) as bringing waves of reprieve to the black(ened) Peoples of the black(ened) Earth. I’ve been dreaming of a black(ened) world; a world that eulogizes the black(ened) Resistance that made her (M)Other.
Omenyi Tangelo (they/them) is an emerging Black lesbian poet and essayist of Congolese-descent based in Tiohtià:ke in so-called Canada. They write about what it means to inhabit their identities, including being nonbinary and neurodivergent, about (anti)Blackness, the African diaspora, and Black queer futures. They can be found on Twitter (@dokolothedyke).