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I spent two years not looking Into the mirror in his office. Talking, instead, into my hands Or a pillow in my lap. Glancing up Occasionally...

  In this time of transition from anger, despair, and loneliness to one of hope and possibility, we pause to consider the ways that we have ...

There are lots of ways to stay alive. You can wear soft clothes and focus on brushing your teeth and hydrating. You can ask yourself what yo...

Just as he fell in love with the dinosaurs, just as he would fall in love with the moon— no women in the world yet, he was only ten years ol...

  1:21 "I am manifesting protection..." Michaela Harrison I am manifesting protection There's a forcefield all around keeping ...

" The natural state of all writing is mediocrity. It's all tending toward mediocrity in the same way that all atoms are sort of dis...

  March 9, 2016 (12:37) "I want to say and re-say to anyone who ask me, I do believe in gratitude ("flowers") as  a kind of d...

 

 Article for prison justice : Building on Resmaa’s framing, I have been also thinking about power. It seems that power can show up as clean ...

from Bright Dead Things It was only months when it felt like I had been washing the dishes forever. Hardwood planks under the feet, a cord t...

  From  Bestiary   We never knew winter before this.  Winter where none of the trees lose  their needles,  where ice creaks the limb,  and t...

On Being with Ross Gay Tippett : I wanted to talk to you about justice and how you grapple with that reality, that aspiration, that concept...

Silent friend of many distances, feel how your breath enlarges all of space. Let your presence ring out like a bell into the night. What fee...

All morning I’ve thought of you feeding donkeys in the Spanish sun—Donkey Petra, old and full of cancer. Blind Ruby who, you say, loves car...

Life, the saying goes, is a journey, and who could argue with that? We’ve all experienced the surprising turns, the nearly-impassible swamp...

  I learned as a child there are two ways to see The world as it is and the way it could be Some people say that's just not my problem S...

If I told you we were slapping the beat to some Barry White jam crooning from the boombox and that every single one of us at one point or a...

Catalogue of unending gratitude Poem in a sun shape Letter about what you learned. Story = lesson. "Translate" a poem Wanting to t...

Today Georgia chose to elect a black man of faith and a Jewish man over a white man and a white woman clothed in hate. Today groups formed a...