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.