are you in a deep malaise because you live in a country ruled by, or impacted by, leaders and politics rooted in racism, militarism, capitalism and other systemic forms of […]
Year: 2017
under the influence of lightning
laying here in the heart of a storm. thunder is rolling overhead and when lightning strikes it’s as bright as day in the whole sky. midwestern storms are extravagant. today […]
high watching moana
i have a theory that to make children’s movies these days, those doing the animation/visuals just get high and draw. to test this theory i will, without urgency, occasionally watch […]
black august reflections and poems, week 1
i am fasting from food and water today. i’ve been tidying my house, listening to records on my new little turquoise victrola, burning frankincense and sage and reflecting on this […]
I reject your raft
you think you are the ocean and you offer me a raft of blackness or womanness fatness or queerness dis-ability or my migrant nature or something other other other you […]
the scale of epiphany
all of my adult life i’ve navigated depression. it doesn’t show up in obvious ways. but i know when it’s running the ship. i lose touch with the miracle, the […]
someday soon I will become irrelevant
someday soon i will become irrelevant i will say something out of line or outdated you will learn of my contradictions and cancel my existence maybe someone will say but […]
in the dark i see fireflies
in the dark i see fireflies they are like we are sparks sometimes shining rarely in rhythm rarely together but beautiful in the dark i see longing yawning open, wet […]
black band on flesh
last summer i started wearing a black cloth band around my arm as a sign of continuous black grief and resistance. over the year i felt the commitment spread through […]
a few things I try to say to the children, without words
I am not here to surrender to mediocrity I am not here to deny the many ways of being or anyone else’s pain I know the water flows around obstacles […]
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