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“How good that the clouds travel, as they do, like the long dresses of the angels of our imagination—”

— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Of Goodness”, in Red Bird

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Francesca Woodman

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“When there is no desire, all things are at peace.”

— Lao Tzu (via davejwatson)

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#meganburns #poetry #poets

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E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

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“No prophet or healer or poet could practice his art if he did not lose his mind, Sokrates says. Madness is the instrument of such intelligence. More to the point, erotic mania is a valuable thing in private life. It puts wings on your soul.”

— Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

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“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that — I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much — so very much to learn.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via wnq-writers)

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Photograph by Agnes Tine Tolboell.

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thinking..

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    I am             more or less             a poem,

an ndn,          a woman,

this language,     I break

            the world             against.

— Gwen Benaway, from day/break

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rose quartz memorial stone

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, 1992

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“I’m in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing.”

— Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters (via ellacalm)

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Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera: Poems

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Francesca Woodman

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Leonard Freed, The Big Splash, Harlem 1963

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“I remember the day I became a father. I was young - 17. I had my first daughter. And all the things that I used to do - I stopped. I just love kids. I have seven kids now. My last daughter, she’s 2 years old. That what brings me joy and happiness. My family.

I’ve been working for Metro for over seven years now and we’ve been on strike for seven weeks now. 3:30 in the morning we get up from our beds and our kids and our wives to help the community get the garbage up. All we’re asking for is better living wages - $15/hour. Right now we make $10.25. We asking for correct PPE. We asking for $150 of hazard pay - we not asking too much! That’s all we asking for. But we can’t get a response from them. We got trucks that leak hydraulic fluid all day. The trucks you be seeing - hydraulic fluid be leaking on us. But we manage to work so we can take care of our bills. It’s like they don’t even care about us. And we are exposed to the corona. We are frontline. They give us one pair of gloves. You gotta come early just to get a mask!

When I go home, I get so much love from my kids that they run to me when they hear the door open. And I gotta say, ‘Oh no you can’t come on daddy right now because I’m exposed!’ They want to give me a hug, but I can’t.

My kids, they got me on the right path. The love that they give me - I love 'em so much. That’s where all my joy come from - them. Keeping them on the right path, making sure they do right at school. I give them whatever they want. I got honor roll students at home. That’s all I want, 'cause I ain’t graduate. It gives me joy to see what they accomplished with daddy there. That’s why I’m trying to fight for better living wages. I want better for them. I want to buy me a nice house where my kids could run around in big ol’ rooms! Let’s get this together and make these jobs better. Not just the garbage! Everybody. Everybody that’s being underpaid, mistreated! Once you pay your bills, you got little coins in your pocket. But what about something in the bank? It would be a better world.” #nolabeings #neworleans #supportthehoppers #happyfathersday —- Support: gofundme.com/f/helping-the-essential + follow @thecitywasteunion https://www.instagram.com/p/CBtp_p3gAdN/?igshid=1cigh9br6d0vf