May 2009
3 posts
April 2009
10 posts
Weightless
“Cloud” by Sandra Cisneros
Before you became a cloud, you were an ocean, roiled and murming like a mouth. You were the shadow of a cloud crossing over a field of tulips. You were the tears of a man who cried into a plaid handkerchief. You were a sky without a hat. Your heart puffed and flowered like sheets drying on a line.
And when you were a tree, you listened to trees and the tree...
March 2009
42 posts
Lemme Upgrade Ya
in the midst of creating a website for my photos, you can check out the work in progress here:
http://anaabbasi8852.sitewelder.com/index.html
i used to think i could leave the latch on & forget about the things i didn’t want to remember. i realize now that though it’s hard, unlocking & understanding the past is a tolerable dose of pain that leads to so much beauty.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña →
Warrior for Gringostroika
by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
“our deepest generational emotion is that of loss, which comes from our having left. our loss is total and occurs at multiple levels: loss of our country…and our class…progressive loss of language and literary culture in our native tongue…loss of ideological meta-horizons…and of metaphysical certainty…in exchange, what we won was a vision of a more experimental...