speak to me, speak to me of identifiable dying, of your wars where yearning stops in a blood gush. in the wars i know, all the victims live on crippled. i don't know your wars. i spent them knitting daisies on button holes something nice to do, an accomplishment. tell me something to think of, [...]
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Her veiled body glides through the empty streets An Angel of Death. Her eyes, wild with pagan fire flames Search the ruins of what used to be a crown jewel of the desert. Her silent prayers in the dark, unanswered in ages. If tears for everything she lost could wipe clean the slate of hatred, [...]
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Few people can claim a career as filled with high purpose as mine, yet until a year ago, I felt I made no difference to the world. I have taken a twenty year journey across four continents to discover my vocation and every dead-end and wrong turn has helped shape my final conviction that I [...]
My Clothes by Brenda Flynn
My father told me to cherish my name As it spoke of centuries of pride and valor. As the years passed, and I had many names, I wondered how it would feel to have had only one. Women move and change and put on new clothes With each new dawn of life Yet men remain [...]
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All images courtesy of the artist. In the summer of 1970 I was twenty-four years old, single, and living on my own, as I had been since I was nineteen, in my native New York City. The driving force in my life was my art, but I supported myself as a secretary in the music [...]
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All images courtesy of the artist. Sometimes you make travel plans in the strangest of places. I remember the moment when I finally decided it was time to visit to Cuba. Oddly enough, it came when I had a woman's feet in my lap and I was examining her corns. This may not make much [...]
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