Ancestral Intelligence by CJ Spears

In her beautiful poem, Ancestral Intelligence, CJ Spears evokes a deeper intelligence rooted in the body, in community, and in a sacred inheritance carried forward across rupture. Cultivated through kinship, survival, and reciprocity, this intelligence arises from a living continuum of memory, land, spirit, and collective responsibility. Spears’s poem insists that “we are the way [ ] The post…