Prayer: our city who art/ our city who art/ our city who art/ tell me everything you know about forgiveness
i (carry) your (name) in (my) mouth/ do (you) trouble/ a (city) is (its) people/ you’d do (well) to (remember) that/ a (city) rises and falls (on) the desire/ we (bring) to (survive) it
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Process Notes:
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
- strengthened into Tropical Storm Katrina
in the deepest cracks of your heart
what you seek is older than love
some beings map dreams, map a city
a card catalogue of spray painted sanity
we talked about how you we make it
where no one else makes beauty
find us there
mapper of dark places, locked by sound
i was made not afraid
designed close enough to call back
time is short&idon'twantorepeathesecycles
once upon a time, you get lost, megan
i downloaded too fast and burnt edge
made space and plummeted
falling so fast, you burn up before you land
anyone who tells you they want to be loved unconditionally
is a liar, we crave the border of love, the special costs
the choosing, if all you offer is without condition
to anyone, i promise, you will travel alone
"complex entanglement simply becomes no entanglement"
Photograph:
OPEN YOUR EYES graffiti by READ on the Naval Base behind the End of the World Labyrinth
It's hard not to compare disasters, to mine for lack and less and where we stand now.
Like we had poetry readings, we had dinners, we had dancing and second lines; we had touch and comfort and community. We fought to rebuild. Others came to support us. We were both hated and cherished. And there was hope, an arc of ending and moving toward recovery.
And now, it's just endless days of slowly losing more of ourselves, more of all we worked for and built, more of less and less. No touch. No memories. No sounds shared. No support. No one is coming.
No reflection catches this: The silent ways we break apart alone.
What time does to us here. And where was love in all of this.
Self-transcendence means the universe is capable of going beyond what it has been before.
I felt us changed. Time folded and we rode out on fear. But would you give it to me.
The future maps the past. Time is never moving forward. It's turning.
Back to the beginning. What if there was no suffer but only opportunities to slip this net of desire constructed to hold us down to this story's old ways of unfolding.
What have you got to lose at this point by believing in everything?
That's where we are headed. Grief so deep; you let go the hold on thinking there is a limit to what you can think. A limit to what you can feel. A limit to what we can imagine. As if the only war hasn't always been that war...
Plague Journal:
6.17.20
i don't think you can be good at anything in a cruel world. i wish i still believed that poetry or art or anything really made a difference.
Resource:
Destroy This Memory
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2010/08/17/129251257/misrach
in the deepest cracks of your heart
what you seek is older than love
some beings map dreams, map a city
a card catalogue of spray painted sanity
we talked about how you we make it
where no one else makes beauty
find us there
mapper of dark places, locked by sound
i was made not afraid
designed close enough to call back
time is short&idon'twantorepeathesecycles
once upon a time, you get lost, megan
i downloaded too fast and burnt edge
made space and plummeted
falling so fast, you burn up before you land
anyone who tells you they want to be loved unconditionally
is a liar, we crave the border of love, the special costs
the choosing, if all you offer is without condition
to anyone, i promise, you will travel alone
"complex entanglement simply becomes no entanglement"
Photograph:
OPEN YOUR EYES graffiti by READ on the Naval Base behind the End of the World Labyrinth
It's hard not to compare disasters, to mine for lack and less and where we stand now.
Like we had poetry readings, we had dinners, we had dancing and second lines; we had touch and comfort and community. We fought to rebuild. Others came to support us. We were both hated and cherished. And there was hope, an arc of ending and moving toward recovery.
And now, it's just endless days of slowly losing more of ourselves, more of all we worked for and built, more of less and less. No touch. No memories. No sounds shared. No support. No one is coming.
No reflection catches this: The silent ways we break apart alone.
What time does to us here. And where was love in all of this.
Self-transcendence means the universe is capable of going beyond what it has been before.
I felt us changed. Time folded and we rode out on fear. But would you give it to me.
The future maps the past. Time is never moving forward. It's turning.
Back to the beginning. What if there was no suffer but only opportunities to slip this net of desire constructed to hold us down to this story's old ways of unfolding.
What have you got to lose at this point by believing in everything?
That's where we are headed. Grief so deep; you let go the hold on thinking there is a limit to what you can think. A limit to what you can feel. A limit to what we can imagine. As if the only war hasn't always been that war...
Plague Journal:
6.17.20
i don't think you can be good at anything in a cruel world. i wish i still believed that poetry or art or anything really made a difference.
Resource:
Destroy This Memory
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2010/08/17/129251257/misrach
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