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Category Archives: Violence

What love could learn from fungus if it would only listen

June 8, 2017

I wish you could spread in that restless, vindictive, ambling way — to not be held back, to spew spores …

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When the cold wind blows

April 12, 2017

Does it startle you, shake you from oblivion, draw you to attention, to your fear? Or do you turn away …

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On healing and revolution

December 3, 2016

Gazing up this terrible mountain, you say, love is not enough, though when I add together everything else and stack …

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Your body is returned

November 17, 2016

i. I know because you are me. You came here afraid, chased by storms. You huddle with spare, odd friends …

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Waiting for the doctor

November 10, 2016

hazy dry, as if in midair distant beeps, rattles, blood pressure cuff wheezing up, releasing, hour after hour, day may …

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Wondrous grit of life

November 4, 2016

o’ wondrous pain, illuminating discomfort — how you have painted this earth to suit your ease, the slow swing of …

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The meadow prefers no trespassers

October 22, 2016

or, To Donald Trump and all the other letches throughout my long life, starting at age 11 and continuing far …

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I think of love

August 26, 2016

I think of love as something that grows form as it ages, sometimes firm, sometimes round, broadening, ambling if allowed. …

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Fear and hope are like two wings of a bird

July 10, 2016

Today I woke up afraid, hope struggling to be born on this very brink, for my sons, for my city, …

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Why is the woman with the dreadlocks looking away?

May 21, 2016

It came to me in a flash as I saw your black body escaping past the marsh, the others turned …

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