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“I’d rather be a forest than a street”

“I’d rather feel the earth beneath my feet”

-Simon & Garfunkel

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― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951

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A few nights ago I had a dream where I was talking to my dad and telling him I couldn’t breathe. I needed to wake up. I started to hyperventilate and woke up in a cold sweat. I feel like that’s the closest I can describe what Bad Cree made me feel. It’s one of those books that by the end has crawled under your skin and you’re sitting there wondering how to explain to someone why they need to read this book immediately. Johns discusses culture, grief, and family and how they never really leave you no matter how far you try and run away from them.

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Cho Man Ho

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Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Pentachrome"

[Text ID: "My longings burn me"]

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

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Rati Saxena, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Mountain nights"

[Text ID: “Last night / there was a dream / And / In the dream? You / You / You / And / Only you”]

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When I ask you to go on a walk

I’m asking for me to not feel this way

I see the moon uncovering against the fog

The faintest crescent

My favorite moon phase

The one that catches you by surprise

A quiet homecoming

I want summer dinner nights with electricity in the air

I want to ignore the sadness that wants me to wallow

I want to remember the beauty of catching the last few colors of the sunset

What’s another word for want?

The type of want that expands the fire in your blood?

Don’t let me forget it

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#poetry #poem #mine #my writing #writing #moon #love #thoughts about life #summer nights #want #words words words #poems and poetry

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Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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A year or two ago, I was reading about Birds of Prey in an East Bay Park pamphlet.

It said to look out for Red-tailed hawks perching on lampposts on freeways.

Ever since then my eyes search for them while I’m driving on any freeway.

I see them soaring above us like magnificent Gods in the sky or resting on the lamp posts I never noticed before.

It’s funny how when you learn something like that your whole self starts to look for that thing subconsciously.

Your being will start to witness moments most people won’t perceive.

I think happiness is like that. You have to train yourself to see it.

You have to catch it in the small fleeting moments even while you’re driving on a concrete gray highway.

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#my writing #writing #writblr #thoughts about life #hawks #birder #poems #poetry #love #beautiful #life #sunset

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Lafayette library bookstore had some amazing finds

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#bookshop #bookstore #books & libraries #library #love #booksbooksbooks #reader #bookshelves #beautiful

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Thrifting with friends is a deep love

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#thrifting #my friends #love #beautiful #fashion #life #thrift store #favorite #leather jacket

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Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice