Jul 19
Being Here Now This house purrs, pops, ticks hums and idles like a car but with oxygen. Hundreds of leds, lasers and color changing lights shine through crystals, onto walls and ceilings, sounds like a summer night in North Carolina fifty years ago when the night was alive with multitudes. Creating as we go, every …
Jul 12
Immigration Detention Centers We are careful with names. Names have consequences. Names end careers. We call them facilities. We call them processing centers. We call them temporary. We call them necessary, We call it the law as if law were a force of nature not our government deciding who can live here. The technical distinctions …
Jul 04
Land of the Free Somewhere a mother lights a candle for a child who was detained, warehoused and abused as if light could find its way through concrete, through wire, through unjust laws into the hands of someone who needed us to be what we said we were Belinda Subraman, from El Paso Texas, began …
Mar 07
Learning to Be Quiet Fenced in dogs were always barking in the cold, no dog houses just freezing in the snow. My grandfather’s dogs neglected as my grandmother. Age 4, I saw Pop park his truck and drink a pint of whiskey. I heard plenty of talk from the relatives. I didn’t know what it …
