The building next door was stripped naked, its shattered windows gaping onto disarranged kitchens and bedrooms. My aunt’s building was leveled entirely. “Pow,” she said, flattening the air between her hands.

here: here: here: here: take what I have in exchange (but what do I have?) just this:

Dear sky,  where were you when our homes were being bombed?

how evergreen.

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above the ghetto in flames    frantically dance the goddesses of vengeance & conquest

Toussaint Nate Turner Leila Khaled John Brown Tubman Joseph Garang  (2 name but so many few)

nature i hear your prayer. i see your terror.  i know my teeth.

They say the father refused to be a collaborator. And the mother, a physician, a specific kind of witness, had looked at her killers the wrong way.