harriet tubman had a dream of her people’s freedom, and she said it, “my people are free” – not will be, not i hope someone frees us, not my strategic […]
Tag: prayer
make my name
make my name a cracked seed surrendering to wet soil in a square of sun such tiny hope a child could sing me to life make my name a thread […]
oh great mystery (a prayer to the blue moon on the day of the dead)
oh great mystery (a prayer to the blue moon on the day of the dead) [read out loud to make into spell, or listen to me read with a lit […]
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maybe happiness?
being happy takes a lot of work for someone like me. suffering makes sense to me, the world is hard and unfair and oppressive and dangerous. finding the narrative of […]
earth do what you will/forgive us
prayer/submission/spell earth do what you will mother father creator home full of wrath, molten, tremoring you show us how to live and to hurt you all our life, we spiral […]
a prayer for aleppo
praying fails some nights the current day eviscerates the horizon the future ends for people who we can see and we can feel but will never know will never touch […]
michael brown’s homegoing
i have been watching ferguson and feeling many many things. how unique this moment is, and how familiar. how exciting the responses have been, and how exhausted i am by […]