Who Said It Was Simple ~ Audre Lorde There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear. Sitting in Nedicks the women rally before they march discussing the problematic girls they hire to make them free. An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to serve […]
A Normal Life ~ Marjory Heath Wentworth Whatever that is. I don’t pretend to know. Don’t think I haven’t tried to fold the socks in neat pairs and stacked the chipped blue rimmed bowls and matching plates inside the cupboard. For years I have fed the black and white dog who barks whenever the doorbell […]
if you were born ~ rupi kaur if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise
Ultimate Metamorphosis ~ Miquel Martí i Pol Translated from Catalan by Wayne Cox and Lourdes Manyé i Martí Maybe it will be a bird that has stopped its flight forever, maybe a sprig of rosemary that strangely blooms all year and every year, maybe a persistent and tenacious note that everyone hears, maybe a great […]
Crazy Courage ~ Alma Luz Villanueva Why do I think of Michael…. He came to my fiction class as a man (dressed in men’s clothes) : then he came to my poetry class as a woman (dressed in women’s clothes, but he was still a man under the clothes) . Was I moved in the face […]
