In the Beast's Alley

my affect, my state of being and feeling. They are as

well testimony as far as they memorialize instants of the

passing time. My poetry is a cry of conscience, an appeal

to surpass bad faith, a reach to transcendence.

I also identify with the indigenous peoples who,

like the anti-colonialists Caonabo and Anacaona in Haiti,

resisted the trampling of their rights by the newcomers.

They paid the genocidal price as a result. Giants like

Toussaint, Dessalines, Bolívar, Marti, and Castro, Chavez,

would continue the tradition of resistance.