Kat

“I write the myths in me, the myths I am, the myths I want to become. The word, the image and the feeling have a palatable energy, a kind of power. Con imágenes domo mi miedo, cruzo los abismos que tengo por dentro. Con palabras me hago piedra, pájaro, puente de serpientes arrastrando a ras del suelo todo lo que soy, todo lo que algún día seré.”
― Gloria Anzald?a, Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera by Gloria Anzald?a

“When I make wuzu and wash my face with the water, I sometimes imagine it to be a kind of solvent, eating away my skin, the muscle beneath it, and the bone beneath that, the water stripping not just the dream from my head but my head itself, until by the end I'm just scrubbing whatever vanity isn't, whatever to be is, whatever's beneath my body and all its equipment for keeping me here, that's what I imagine myself washing. I get the sense my is is filthier than other people's. Heavier with all that dirt.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“I want to be worthy of the great terror my existence inspires.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“If he'd had a block of marble he could've carved the David. If he'd had a sword he could have sliced through a car. If he'd had a mother she'd be delirious with pride, holding him against her chest, wiping away his tears.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!