Black women, particularly mothers, are leading efforts to treat people currently harmed by toxic neighborhoods and prevent future damage.
One boot sags like him in his cubicle’s corner.
He drops the other to the floor with a grimace.
A new movement of Israeli army refusers has put the government in a crisis, presenting an opportunity for those fighting the occupation of Palestine.
despite everything
that keeps going wrong—the ginkgos,
opening tiny green fans.
It’s plain that the world as we know it is literally choking on its machine- and money-driven complexity.
A friend betrayed me yesterday. I loved him for his rage, hungers & big flat feet he stomped . as if he wanted to leave imprints everywhere he went. I … Continue reading →
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
Generally considered one of The Grateful Dead’s best performances…
I am translating the world into mockingbird, into blue jay,
into cat-bombing avian obbligato, because I want
more noise, more bells, more senseless tintinnabulation
Through a series of intimate performances and conversations with David, his mother and others close to him, there emerges a portrait of an artist searching for his place in life.
A hoard of gold, jewels and priceless art is securely tucked away, guarded, so the joke has long gone, by the gnomes of Zürich.
We stripped in the first warm spring night
and ran down into the Detroit River
to baptize ourselves in the brine
of car parts, dead fish, stolen bicycles,
melted snow.
How It Feels to Be Hungry
“Yeah, I got bumped up to first class, and when I saw who
my seatmate was, I went back to economy and told my girlfriend,
and even though she had the flu, we switch places, and three
weeks later, James Brown is dead.”
The Iraq War ruined what credibility America had as a pillar of international order in the global south and gave Putin cover for his own atrocity.