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she’s never seen the sea

sunlight imprinted on her father’s skin

waves crashing

and his feet smiled tattooed under boyish grin

snapping pictures

with closing eyelids

her father’s face

flush on recollection

the same waves that had clenched like an angry jaw

as his mother pushed him forward like a train car

watch his neighbor drown

tears streaming

eyes connecting

screams muffled

as inhalation suffocated lungs

muscles weary

skin pruning

he was barely a boy

knowing he’d never return

his neighbor

an older man born in Akka

looked dapper at dinner parties

looked helpless that day

his body revolting against death

a pool intent on swallowing him

so many stroking to get on boats departing

who’d have known this gulf would have been their deathbed

she has been beaten

ID checked

body thrown to the ground

fist and feet pummeled

tender flesh

shoulder broken

heart too many times

tear gas inscribed on her lungs

she wrote back on her breath that the canister’s defeat is near

these fields are ours

she said to me

before the Europeans and Brooklynites

before the swimming pools

army jeeps

and barbed wires

before the talks

road maps

and Swiss cheese plants

before declarations rewrote history

those hills met footprints and that can’t be erased

like village massacres can’t be erased

like broken bones policies can’t be erased

like the screams ringing in her father’s ears can’t be erased

we are the boat returning to dock

we are the footprints on the northern trail

we are the iron coloring the soil

we cannot be erased

- Remi Kanazi

art: ‘We Shall Return” by Abu Shtayyah

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“Abolition envisions a world where we address harm without relying on the violent systems that increase it, a world where we have everything we need: food, shelter, education, health, art, beauty, clean water, and more things that are foundational to our personal and community safety”

- Mariame Kaba, ‘We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

art: ‘Breakout’ by NO Bonzo

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Solidarity with incarcerated folks. Image for CR PDX and SWOC who are sending artistic postcards this upcoming Nov. 30th to incarcerated sex workers.

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Moon Phases String Game Soon to be printed in gold and silver

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by Kiel Murray (2019)

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Every picture tells a story, Artuš Scheiner

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Hedge Witch, the Lady in the Tree by  gingerkelly via redbubble

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anxiety

sometimes it’s a struggle

not to disappear

inside the holes

circumscribed

by my

mind

.

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if you’ve ever seen the sunset from the ocean

then you’ll know that

there’s a moment when

every wave is tipped with fire

and it’s hard to tell

where sunlight ends

and silence begins

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Life After People, Joe Nafis

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#evening #glory (at Houston, Texas)

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Grateful for this glimpse of sunshine & blue skies #HopeForHouston (at Westside, Houston, Texas)

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Avey & Braddock feeling that #dune #sunset #magic ✨ (at South Padre Island, Texas)

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Standing on the dock of the bay, watching the sun fade away, bidding the Wizard of Wheelock farewell 💔 (at South Padre Island, Texas)

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#Vancouver #Sunset (at Vancouver, British Columbia)

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I rarely take pictures of food, but my son just asked for a rainbow salad and it's gorgeous