Lisa Teasley is a Los Angeles native, artist and writer. Her solo retrospective show was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery, Spring 2019 and her first solo exhibition was at the Watts Towers Art Center curated by John Outterbridge.

sweet leaks out the droning walls / call it a hard-knocks monastery / call it Ghandi split and shackled / call it honey  in a bitter built hive

These are columbuses who use the same tactics as against / the Taínos, kill us with disease, this time as capitalism, debt, the lack, / to steal land for their leisure. How the devil delights in playing on our bones.

In the backyard, / like burying cacti into the earth, / she buried her letters / next to earthworm cocoons.