Poet’s Note: This poem was inspired by Keenan Camacho’s, comment concerning Summer Taylor, “They were always the first one to call people out for being sexist, racist — standing up for queer and trans people, basically anyone who needed to be stood up for, they were the ones there that were so vocal.” The quotation appeared on July 5, 2020, in Allison Waller’s New York Times article, “Seattle Protester Dies After Being Struck by Car.”

 Subhaga Crystal Bacon a cis-gender, Queer identified woman who lives, writes, and teaches on the east slope of the North Cascade Mountains in Twisp, WA. A form of lyric social protest, these poems are from an ongoing series elegizing and memorializing trans and non gender conforming women and men murdered in 2020. She is also the author of two volumes of poetry, Blue Hunger, 2020, and Elegy with a Glass of Whisky, 2004. 

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