Safe space
Sun through stained glass pools red on the hand, imagine warmth there, love has been decreed. In a gallery where steps echo on a quiet Tuesday afternoon the docent nods… Read more Safe space →
ITMFA
In this fraught time might we pause and consider what our eventual selves will think of this absurd era when the powerful had everything they could ever need and yet hated to not get more? This is what they want: your home, or at least every window of it to be open, to prove at every moment that you are praying to the One True God. Let them hear you roar your everlasting song of praise to the rich and famous who have urged you to cleave from your soft,… Read more ITMFA →
Life begins
Life begins when the brain first fears. My first breath took in all of the world’s worry and I haven’t stopped crying since. Or does it begin at first sight,… Read more Life begins →
The planet’s on fucking fire
Tired of reasoning with people who refuse to hear we dragged them kicking from their lazy boys to dead zones in the sea showed them the swollen bodies of half-plastic whales sent them flying into state-sized hurricanes let them feel a warm flood on their shins in their own homes slogged to the urban forest to witness diseased trees withering bees a trip to the beach to watch the chemical tide roll over their grandchildren’s feet still they wouldn’t listen not even to the sizzle of such precious flesh we… Read more The planet’s on fucking fire →
One million species
We have been handed, whether by deity or ancestry, a planet pulsing with life. The sunning plankton fields and the skating whalefall cities, the hummingbirds’ tremors and the grackles’ squalls,… Read more One million species →
Defiant
I run faster than your voice, so fast that I can’t see the history I make. I am a future that makes you itch, a past you have tried many… Read more Defiant →
Head above water
I will not listen to men with opinions about what I put on my skin. If it’s too much, it’s my religion. If it’s too little, it’s my lack of… Read more Head above water →
Casual wartime
Anywhere can be a battlefield. Enjoy all of the possible barricades in the elementary school, the church, the diner. In the mall you have your pick of colors of wall… Read more Casual wartime →
