You Think You’re Waiting For Love To Find You When In Reality It Has Saved You In A Thousand Different

Happy Juneteenth! Here’s some info about Juneteenth becoming a national holiday & what that means for us.

Mai Masri - Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001)

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“To forget how you tasted those leggy afternoons when our bodies spilled like wine across the floor, is to admit a hawk into the house. Is to wring a rag of water. When I’m in the thicket with my smaller hungers, I don’t need to know every cave and what it stores, cool and damp, for you. I don’t need to know how many nests are lined with your hair. There’s nothing tame about twilight, this old song shaking the sweetgum leaves— when I thirst I dream like a violin waiting the bow.”

— Amie Whittemore, from “Nocturne,” Birmingham Poetry Review (no. 49, Spring 2022)

How many incarcerated people actually need to be rehabilitated, really? How many people just need a decent income, or better quality of life overall, or steady childcare, or to not be punished for made-up crimes?

Fragrance circle used by Drom, a global scent company founded in Germany in 1911.

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The Elevator Issue, no. 191, October 1999

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