Instructions for Building a Black Solarpunk City

Freedom requires a city that remembers its people.

Plant orchards before police precincts.

Plant fig trees beside bus stops.

Let peaches fall onto sidewalks where children wait for school.

Let rooftop gardens shade the elders playing dominoes.

Let the wind spin turbines above libraries where history breathes.

Build water catchment towers beside community centers.

Turn abandoned malls into greenhouses.

Let the city inhale sunlight and exhale bread.

Plant orchards before police precincts.

Build libraries beside water catchment towers.

Teach children that blueprints are also poems.

Teach them that city councils should smell like soil.

Let the engineers listen to grandmothers who know where the rain settles.

Let the streets curve toward gardens and gathering circles.

Let solar panels crown the roofs like halos of intention.

Let neighborhood kitchens glow long after sunset.

Build libraries beside water catchment towers.

Let children design the playgrounds and the council chambers.

Let chalk drawings become zoning plans.

Let swing sets stand where patrol cars once waited.

Let murals replace warning signs.

Let laughter be the loudest architecture.

Let music travel through open windows and carry decisions across blocks.

Let the future be drafted in bright crayons and stubborn hope.

Let children design the playgrounds and the council chambers.

Freedom requires a city that remembers its people.

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