i have dreams of knowing your middle name. temporary lipstick tattoo’s and using dancing as an excuse to wipe your sweat on my dress. if you show me those meg thee stallion knees i promise i’ll do the same. hurry      before the streetlights are put to sleep. let’s make the most of the only forever we’ll ever have and fit our love into a dancefloor.
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i want you when the world is watching. when our wedding rings turn into congested streets and those congested streets wear picket signs on their heads, i will kiss you. i will kiss you until the world sees itself outside of the world and in the infinite. where everything is possible, even another future.
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give me hope. give me yes. give me hips reaching for the heavens and let them sway. like a rocking chair. like a tree trusting the breeze. like a promise to always fall back into         me.

A Cabrera's poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in The New Guard, Brain,Child Magazine, Colere, Acentos Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Best Travelers' Tales 2021 Anthology, Mer, Deronda, and other journals. Her short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Award and adapted for stage by the Bay Area Word for Word Theater Company. She writes, teaches, dances and ride bikes in San Francisco, but not always in that order.

Maya Namatovu hopes that her poetry inspires you to be a voice of disruption, advocacy, and change towards liberation for all oppressed peoples. None of us are free until we are all free. Maya is a Ugandan-Jamaican poet based on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. She is raising two beautiful and brilliant babies and holds multiple poetry slam titles, including two-time canadian individual poetry slam champion (2023, 2025). Her poetry is published in international anthologies “De las Periferias a las Fronteras” and “Poesía Y Disidencias” (2024) alongside very powerful thinkers and writers.