POETRY & PROSE, RELIGION

the blue mountained heart

softening denotes a lesson learned and overcome: the reunification of soul wisdom with the mind i examine a slice of the atrium wall, striations of color hidden by a neutral crust. my heart is coated with something gray yet inside it is still alive! i wait for the hardness to weaken by waters crash and […]

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POETRY & PROSE

the space between our fingers is a mile long

where my journey has left mefits imperfectly with where yours is now to join together in the synapse is to createto share a bondformed by an exchange of ourselvesthe places we’ve beenthe ones we still wish to see one day I hope you will read this. and we will join together. like we have never […]

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POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS

heal

A dry desert<insert rain>free of acid on my tongue diffused into my skina part of my soul streams jagged rocks interrupting the flowheart like a sand block waiting to erode to be free I wish to see the desert after it rains,-to see life sprout from it again. _ (Featured Photography: Javier Arcenillas)

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POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS

identity politics

lip-kits thick with identity politics curves and thighs commodified as if they haven’t been desirable since the sun’s first shine on the Hollister skin trending back in the day well money doesn’t define worth ads and photo ops don’t make it all better look closely at the composition question do they stand there fettered? chained? […]

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