talisman for visibility protection
//who loses power when you gain power?//
Maajhi Re
“Maajhi Re” (Original song) – Lyrics & Translation Maajhi re maajhi re o maajhi re (x 2) Boatman, o boatman Aankhen meri kar roshan maajhi re Light up my eyes o boatman Saanson mein bhar de phir rang maajhi re Bring colors into my life o boatman Meri naiyya, ho meri naiyya… Meri naiyya khadi hai ek kinaare My boat… Read more →
Dream Deferred
Well before the civil unrest from the summer of 2020 after George Floyd’s murder, activists have been taking to the streets for decades to address the racism and police brutality perpetuated in the USA and on the global front on other countries through the USA and European colonization. Here is Nicolas Hyacinthe’s artistic representation of the current Civil Rights Movement,… Read more →
Jaina Cipriano (a slideshow)
Delta N.A. (a slideshow)
Secret Origin
Even Jesus’ parents gave competing accounts of his birth. —You were, said his mother, —unexpectedly large. I said to your father, Where had so much child been hiding? I couldn’t believe this huge person had been waiting inside me. Yet his father, squatting, slick with the day’s sweat, his back against a cool interior wall, recalled a different truth. —Tiny…. Read more →
Artifact
You are not a yellowing mapunder his thumb. Or a hoeleft to rust in waxbean fields sheathedin snow. You are a terrainof moments older. A cartographer’snightmare. The lithosphere’s shiftingsister. Tectonic plate heartbeat shaking the bed. Seismicorgasm. River snakingthrough a city remembrance. You grow skyscrapercynical with every hotter winter. Your voiceis not an engine revving or a bald eaglecry in a… Read more →
Inheritance
In his Will, Dad left me the righthand corner of our back porch, the crawlspace where I used to hide out as a child, the basement where he first caught me making out with a boyfriend. Our eldest brother with the weight issues had been left the pantry where the earthquake crackers were kept. The middle brother, who inherited Dad’s… Read more →