Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair: Poems social studies When El and Octavia wake

When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives

where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon

and soon discover the mortal world is not the only one on the brink of war

“is a raw fearless innocent gay Black kid’s journey coming out into life at an incredible pre-AIDS period

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Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair: Poems social studies When El and Octavia wakeBy: Marisca Pichetta When I left home I took only what I could carry What will you bring with you down the path, through the hills and into the woods? Fragments, stories, living things? Echoes of the past, promises for the future? In fifty new and collected poems, Marisca Pichette celebrates myth, folklore, and memory. Her poems traverse landscapes both real and imagined, taking inherited tales and retelling them through a queer lens. From dusk into