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Running In A Red State poem by Cymelle Leah Edwards AZpoetry.com

2026

Running in a Red State

By Cymelle Leah Edwards

Edwards maps running routes across Arizona onto experiences of race, sexuality, trauma, memory and personal safety. As running changes from sport to vulnerability and eventually survival, “winning” comes to mean making it home and living beyond yesterday.