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2023 PEEL North Minneapolis June 2-4

Danielle Tietjen


poem by Christine Benson photography by Christine Benson
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Middle of everything

I can see the rotation around you
Not the center as a point of ego, but still a fixed point

Center of paying attention
Center of giving attention
Center of being at attention

Looking to balance the scale
Pride and potential 
Against fear and doubt

But the metrics can’t be defined
let alone measured
so the math never comes out right

The ruler that’s been handed down is missing increments 

Ready to make a new measure
Interrupting generations of trauma
One value at a time
Danielle Tietjen