[kuchipachi]

white flag by lucia gallipoli

[brucespringsteencomments]

[bodyigrewupwith]

[archivearchangelica]

Protesting American policy in Somalia. American Embassy, London. 2007

[achillesinhighheels]

[weltenwellen]

June Jordan, "Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.", Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan

[slvtwrld]

rest in peace SOPHIE <\3

[lunchboxpoems]

JACKSON HOLBERT

[caos-de-bolsillo]

Open Veins Of Latin America: Five Centuries Of The Pillage Of A Continent : Eduardo Galeano : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Interne

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is a

Eduardo Galeano - Las venas abiertas de América Latina : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Para descargar el libro clic en la columna derecha en la fila 'PDF'

[ub-sessed]

White Americans ... are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it. The word “sensual” is not intended to bring to mind quivering dusky maidens or priapic black studs. I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. ... Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person.

--James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963

[hawkscaled]

Considering introducing a controlled burn to the prairies of my mind

[aworsening]

Karma Affirmation Cistern Don’t Be Afraid Keep Going Toward the Horror, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

[n-award]

Recipient pearl oyster from Pinctada margaritifera with one shell valve removed showing the general anatomy and the cultured pearl inside the chimera organ, the pearl sac: AM, adductor muscle; NC, nacreous zone; G, gills; B, byssus; M, mantle; and PS, pearl sac. 

[rabbithearteddd]

“September” by Jennifer Michael Hecht

[gnomebud]

[image description: a poem titled "September" that reads:

Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.

I let my oars fall into the water.

Good for them. Good for them, getting what they want.

The night is so still that I forget to breathe.

The dark air is getting colder. Birds are leaving.

Tonight there are people getting just what they need.

The air is so still that it seems to stop my heart.

I remember you in a black and white photograph

taken this time of some year. You were leaning against a half-shed tree,

standing in the leaves the tree had lost.

When I finally exhale it takes forever to be over.

Tonight, there are people who are so happy,

that they have forgotten to worry about tomorrow.

Somewhere, people have entirely forgotten about tomorrow.

My hand trails in the water.

I should not have dropped those oars. Such a soft wind.

/end id]

[campsis]

Zoe Aguerreberry (@agueb_)

[fawnaura]

Call your spirit back. It may be caught in corners and creases of shame, judgment, and human abuse. You must call in a way that your spirit will want to return. Speak to it as you would to a beloved child. Welcome your spirit back from its wandering. It may return in pieces, in tatters. Gather them together. They will be happy to be found after being lost for so long. Your spirit will need to sleep awhile after it is bathed and given clean clothes. Now you can have a party. Invite everyone you know who loves and supports you. Keep room for those who have no place else to go. Make a giveaway, and remember, keep the speeches short. Then, you must do this: help the next person find their way through the dark.

Joy Harjo, from Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light, "For Calling The Spirit Back From Wandering The Earth in its Human Feet"

[wawamouse]

"Electric", Carl Phillips