Butterfly in a Boneyard By Jillian Christmas (Grades 7-9)

Jillian Christmas is a spoken word and anti-colonial poet from Vancouver, BC, Canada. She has won numerous literary prizes for her work. This poem, "a butterfly in a boneyard", comes from her first volume of poetry, The Gospel of Breaking, which was published in 2020; she has since produced two more works, The Magic Shell and My Sweet Baby Book.