My Philly firsts
#1 sharing space #AWP22 with an SF legend #samuelrdelaney #Afrofuturism #2 viewed liberty’s crack #3 amazed at the power of objects: cups & saucers & spoons China Wedge (1994) by Mei-Ling Hom
“I Go to Prepare a Place for You”
The Smithsonian’s acquisition of Bisa Butler’s quilt of Harriet Tubman quilted cotton, silk and velvet jaw dropping gorgeous! #bisabutler
Keep Off
On a walk with Wally. To BLM plaza and back. No leg lifting. Makes sense.
Buds
New arrival buds bursting like the crack in my left wisdom tooth, ground down after winter.
Springing
bulbs are starting to pop (just like us)
Park(ed) Memory
someone or some (history) blanked abe’s eyes (out) in front of a building 3000 miles away from me now/home. he got shot (not too far) from me in now/new home. this/his bust isn’t exactly busted but those eyes – eerily bruised like justice or (us)
Divorce (CA): Church & Duboce (?)
Not missing you at all.
Bulls eye
evidence of flinch, (my) flinching learned to pull a trigger strapping up perhaps, there is (was) a war & the (Right’s wrong) Trump (is) coming for people (othered) like me. evidence of flinch, (my flinching) the Glock was heavy loaded, loud. recoil a surprise. steady. breathe. release. bulls (eye). bulls (eye).
Open Letter (open up)
https://medium.com/@hadar.aviram/open-letter-to-gov-gavin-newsom-from-criminal-justice-and-prison-scholars-c82c6075fb75