Anniversary
“I keep quiet // but the wind still stumbles through the psalm // we wrote together.”
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Provisions #8: “If I could just leave the old things to their trembling”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Canisia Lubrin, Wisława Szymborska, and Kenyan Freedom Fighters.
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Provisions #7: “repair a world or build / a new one inside my body”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Solmaz Sharif, Pablo Neruda, and Cameron Awkward-Rich.
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Provisions #6: “In the exhalations of Americans there is a crumbling empire”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, and Etel Adnan.
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The Bird of Sorrow
“A bullet passes through my neck / my blood / begins to speak through my feathers”
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Provisions #5: “tarnished, / problematic, and certainly uneven—a we”
Meditations in a crisis on writing by René Ménil, Ari Banias, and Andrea Rexilius.
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[unfinished draft]
“when fucking, I frequently mistake cries of pleasure for cries of faith”
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