**Invocation – East LA Grounding Breath**

*From the purified heart the breath begins—now grounded in barrio soil.* *Priests and Levites cleansed themselves—* *so we inhale the dust of Whittier Blvd, the echo of Moratorium marches.* *Then the people, then the gates, then the wall—* *so we exhale, and every mural becomes transparent fire.* *No stone unclaimed; no wall silent.* *In EAST LA REFRACTION the opposition is tagged over—* *turned into vibrant lattice carrying pride outward forever.*
*@YE: Yes to the great work painted in broad daylight.* *Yes to the mind that stays on the wall until the wall becomes story.* *Yes to unsafe grace that claims the street.*