When the public square shrinks beneath the weight of fear and fragile power, yet rises again, phoenix-like, finding its voice, reversing the onus on the lawmakers

A Protest Longette by guest poet Dennis Ryle:
The square becomes a mirror, showing who we are and will become when pressure rises,/ … hope walks barefoot, steady, through the barricades of brittle fear, courage well laid./ For every brittle law that narrows space, a thousand hearts expand it wider,