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I wrote this song after the 2016 election. It narrates dream-images in which the mothering spirit of America is at risk to die without being noticed.

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I dreamed you were a mother
coming home from an abortion
I dreamed you were a warrior
home from Vietnam
there was something you were missing

I dreamed you were a teenager
drunk driving down the freeway
in the arms of a semi
waiting to crash and burn
there was something you were just about to learn

I dreamed...

I dreamed you were a colonial home in flames at the foundation
while your grandma in the attic waits to be rescued
or heard

I’ll die if my children die
I’ll die if their dreams don’t survive
they are my heart and soul

when you kill there’s a body
when you kill there’s a body
when you kill there’s a body
when you kill…

America you dreamed my mixed-blood body to your shores
before they were yours
Chinaman,
Puritan, German immigrant,
Irish, Catholic, free

Negro slave, interned Japanese, Jewish refugee, free
Mexican body in the sand
Syrian body in the waters

America you dreamed my mixed-blood body to your shores
before they were yours

and when it all comes out
this trail you forge
this trail is tears
and blood
red blood
I dreamed...

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from Bring Out the Bodies, released June 16, 2017

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The Feminarians Boston, Massachusetts

The Feminarians are five friends who met at seminary. Bring out the Bodies is a compilation of songs created while hashing out theology and justice. We dedicate this compilation to anyone still awaiting justice, and thank Jesus for leading the way to a world in which no body’s end is a forgotten grave. ... more

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