Vanessa German: News of the Heart
i think and feel about love alla the time. cuz four or five television stations play the news 24 hours a day. all without reporting much news at all. i … Continue reading
Vanessa German: Let us see one another and be lifted up
i am talking about breaking open new eyes here. shedding the scales n raggedy scarred lies that skin the eyes of our seeing. let us see one another and be … Continue reading
Vanessa German: Being Awake
We are talking about being whole artists. about being awake and having seeing eyes and feeling eyes. we are talking about not having to know everything. focusing on both the … Continue reading
Vanessa German: The Earth Said to me
the earth said to me come here. come here and set down. lend me your ear. put your fear. ooops. she said. i mean put your ear here. lay your … Continue reading
Vanessa German: Whole and Holy
Safe to be your whole self. safe to say things out loud in the sound of your own voice. safe to be in your body in your eyes to be … Continue reading
Vanessa German: The Insurance Salesman Visits the Road of Corpses
These kids are killing me wit alla their talk of death. yesterday a cue line at the arthouse n a trio of dead uncles shot n kilt. cousins fake cousins … Continue reading
Vanessa German: Be good to your wild places my loves
i was the dirty one. the least cute thing between my three ravishing straight-toothed sisters. and i was round and brown and the nappiest. cuz. i wasn’t born with the … Continue reading
Vanessa German: When thug Vanessa comes out
i am tender and mostly only a tuff thing when you have gone offa yo self and put fists to me or gone subversive and cruel the way toddlers do … Continue reading
Vanessa German: When the humidity is high and the bank account low
do you know how beautiful you are? how when you smile the sun rises up on a distant planet. oceans n orchids bloom as far as the eye kin see. … Continue reading
Vanessa German: The Boy with the Liberty
i guess that today was the hardest day because when we were in the gallery giving the walking around having been through conversation about oppression and deep discussion of one … Continue reading
Vanessa German: Just in Case
i would hide you. if you needed it. i would. i would come for you. with whatever everything that i had and have. i’d cut the fruit for you. i’d … Continue reading
Vanessa German: My First Police Memory
My first police memory is of 1980’s Los Angeles being 7 or 8 in the back of the big van my mama drove us all around in. her 5 kids. … Continue reading
Vanessa German: Go in Ferocious
Go in ferocious. make the eye contact. make the eye contact and tell every sister you see that you Love her. say.i love you. find every embrace and meet it … Continue reading
Vanessa German: Of Art
i believe in the power of art. and that’s mostly all. but good news is i find it everywhere. like there is this one man on the street and he … Continue reading
