ARCHULETA
CHISOLM

SACRED is a meditation on Black memory, womanhood, and becoming. Rooted in ancestral inheritance and lived experience, these poems move through water and land, grief and joy, faith and flesh—tracing the quiet, holy ways Black life endures. Each piece bears witness to what was taken, what was carried, and what continues to rise. This collection is an offering: to mothers and daughters, to the remembered and the unnamed, to the soft and the steadfast. SACRED insists that survival itself is holy—and that to remember is to return to ourselves.