I first started seeing "ghosts," or spirits, or otherworldly presences, when I was a little girl.
What would you pay for a nesting set of the 1962 pink Cinderella Pyrex with gooseberry print?
The brightest lights cast the deepest shadow, and the high ideals set in The Declaration of Independence are no exception.
“Who would believe that you loved me? / Who would believe that you kept my name? ”
“If the Black world is lost, if our love world ain’t love,
if the unheard, unshaken Black word is freedom,
where is the world you knead off our skulls?”
“my younger brother gets hold of a gun for the first time / he begins to wish for a duel with a seven-eyed ghost”
Artful. Passionate. Raw. Challenging. Intelligent.
The brightest lights cast the deepest shadow, and the high ideals set in The Declaration of Independence are no exception.
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I first started seeing "ghosts," or spirits, or otherworldly presences, when I was a little girl.
“I was told it was a phase, that I needed therapy, …that I could be fixed”
“Imagine taking the strongest edible ever and floating in a warm pool of oblivion”
“You were thinking egg the cop shop. I was thinking you slide over my belly, you slide onto my hand, take your sharp little breaths from my lips.”
“I wonder if the bursting of oneself into flames hurts just as much as being burned by someone else’s fire”
“…the cowboy looking down at his feet, lifting one boot at a time as if he can't believe he put the useless things on…”
“the legacy of trauma can be something other than shatter or silence”