living is what we fight for
Today we bloom liberation buds budding, budding to get free
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Footnotes & Headlines is letters becoming poems becoming banners becoming kites.
A reflection on Spring Equinox during an ongoing genocide in Palestine, with the support of Felix Gonzales Torres and the ways he always used photography to make sense of the senseless.
Today the light shifts and seasons open and buds inch their winter shell off and days become longer and brighter and flowers push through the brown scape
Today journalists were kidnapped
Today marks murder marks spring marks new year marks “less certain than I seem” (Lucille Clifton)
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