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"for roddy" by Lucille Clifton

i am imagining this of you, turned away from breath as you turned from my body, refusing to defile what you adored; i am imagining rejuvenated bones rising from the dead floor where they found you, rising and running back into the life you loved, dancing as you would dance toward me, wherever, whose ever i am.

Art: Amy Sherald, Pilgrimage of the Chameleon

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"Love" by Assata Shakur

Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars.

But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply.

The hacksaw has two blades.

The shotgun has two barrels.

We are pregnant with freedom.

We are a conspiracy.

Art: "Mystic Sky with Self Portrait" by Betye Saar

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“For Women Who Are Difficult To Love” by Warsan Shire

You are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you fill his mouth his teeth ache with memory of taste his body just a long shadow seeking yours but you are always too intense frightening in the way you want him unashamed and sacrificial he tells you that no man can live up to the one who lives in your head and you tried to change didn’t you?

closed your mouth more tried to be softer prettier less volatile, less awake but even when sleeping you could feel him travelling away from you in his dreams so what did you want to do love split his head open? you can’t make homes out of human beings someone should have already told you that and if he wants to leave then let him leave you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love.

Poem: https://vimeo.com/38766162

Art: A Toast to the Health of,” 2011, oil on canvas, 90-½ x 98-¾ in., by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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Cyril Studio

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Haitian men play dominoes in the shadow of a tree during the hot afternoon in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Jan Sochor Photography

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Spathiphyllum, the moon flower

Spathiphyllum is a perennial plant native to the Amazon rainforests that was introduced to Europe in 1870 as a houseplant and more recently to Tahiti as an ornamental garden plant. Its name Fleur de lune comes from the large white sheet that covers it. It is also called Peace Lily since its white bract recalls the white flag raised in sign of surrender.

The moonflower is a perennial plant with rhizomes which develops in a compact and dense clump of 1 m in height. Its evergreen leaves are long, elliptical, deep green, glazed above and matt below.

Its inflorescence is an oval bract, called a spathe, in the shape of a horn which changes from a brilliant white to green with age and a cream or pale green spadix which bears small hermaphroditic flowers.