We are celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth with AkhilaBandlora's "never forget": . the girl with sea foam fingers writes letters on napkins left on beaches like loose change, words stumbling down staircases of five-seven-five haikus — i want an ocean, the one mama whispers of, when she eats, sleeps, prays — she ties them to the webbed foot of a seagull, sends it off to the governor– “the tide is coming.” he laughs, the kind of laugh that corrodes, shoos the seagull — lulls it to sleep with plastic wrappers and bottles — throws the napkin away to land up exactly where the girl found it, dips his pen into the seagull’s carcass to sign a bill for a factory to dump their industrial waste into the ocean — man made trashcan. The girl’s eyes are seismic; the world shifts. . As well as being a talented poet, Akhila is a passionate advocate for climate justice. "I fight against climate change because it operates on various systems of oppression, specifically racism, and I fundamentally believe ef...