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february & my love is in another state by José Olivarez

#poetry #some inspiration things

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hold on a second man…

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🍉If I must die, let it bring hope. Let it be a tale 🪁

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170 hours later and this behemoth project is completed. After being moved to tears three times by Dr. Alareer's poem, I needed to create something. Hopefully this honours his memory.

Hoping to get some funding from local orgs to get this printed into a physical booklet for distribution.

From the river, to the sea!

#poetry #free gaza

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#poetry #free palestine

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Hamed Ashour, excerpt of "From Anas Al-Yaziji to his fiancé, Shaima Abu Al-Ouf, whose body he recovered after two days of searching", pub. Peripheries [ID'd]

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feminist_collages_nyc: Rest in Power Refaat Alareer

#poetry #free palestine

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Refaat Alareer, an academic and lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza, was martyred along with his family in a targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli occupation on December 7th, 2023. We must continue to stand against this genocide.

#free palestine #poetry

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DAY OFF

I look bruise-tired; my vision

screen-blind, but I can still see the cut

grapes below each eye. I’ve been sleeping

what I thought was enough, my alarm

the whine of a dog telling slightly

fibbed time. My morning hair will tell you,

I sleep deep. My screaming nephew knows

I won’t wake for anything. Every waking

is a war. I’m a glut—always wanting more.

And here, where

the hours are,

at last, my own:

I’m weary-weighted—

turned to stone.

#my poetry

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Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Mother. Please, forgive me. I want to call in dead. Last week, there was a child in a yellow dress reading a poem. For minutes on end, I could not be indifferent to anything. Not the grass, dying yellow. Not the bombs, twisting limbs. Not the cages. Not the—

— Noor Hindi, from “Self-Interrogation,” DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

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ANDIE,

you’re so close to my heart

that you’re indistinguishable;

one growing from the other

in a way that I hope is benign—

that I hope won’t kill me.

#my poetry #every lovesong is a dogsong

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#some inspiration things #poetry #palestine #Youtube

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In the wake of this Palestinian author’s award ceremony being canceled, Libro.fm has the book available for #free (Palestine) for a few more hours—check it out.

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781705297902-minor-detail

#not poetry #palestine

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the days are getting longer by Bob Hicok

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch

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The wind, having never sinned,

is throwing stones.

Tossing them from trees

upon our heads.

Speaking in violence,

the only voice it has.

The wind knew how to sing,

back in its greatness,

but now can only hiss,

using the leaves

and it’s anger. What was

summer suddenly shifts.

#my poetry #almost fall!