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My illustrations: And Quiet Flows the Don vol. 1: Peace; Mikhail Sholokhov.

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A 1966 poem by Palestinian poet Tawfiq Ziad (توفيق زيّاد) which was put to music and mythologized as the legendary Palestinian resistance song Ounadikom (أحمد قعبور - أناديكم).

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What’s crazy about sholokhov is he will fit a story that could be its own novel or feature film under a page without losing the emotional impact at all.

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'mira's colors,' mirabai, trans. chloe martinez.

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Day of Mourning by Jill E. Stevens for her friend Jimi Ciulla

from 'fear and trembling,' søren kierkegaard

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roland barthes on his late mother, from camera lucida: reflections on photography pub. 1980.

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This is by a patient of mine with early late stage dementia, who was a poet for most of her life. Her new poems are dictated to me during writing workshops I run at my hospice job. She hadn't written since her diagnosis. This is one of seventeen poems I've written with her so far.

posted with permission from herself and her family.