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"Wow. This has confirmed ideas I'd had of my own family history & how those along the line of my ancestry had responded to trauma." — Mar 20, 2019 04:02AM
"Wow. This has confirmed ideas I'd had of my own family history & how those along the line of my ancestry had responded to trauma." — Mar 20, 2019 04:02AM
“I blindly swallowed the days
the way a dog will run until it is lost
and I was never here
the medication, closer to nothingness
than ever being well.”
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the way a dog will run until it is lost
and I was never here
the medication, closer to nothingness
than ever being well.”
―
“Moon girls, where did you go?”
― The Complete Poems
― The Complete Poems
“Both [parents] knew how to fight for humanity's basic human rights: food, water, shelter, medical care. Figuring out how to provide emotional support for their raped daughter did not propel them into action the way the revolution did. On the contrary, it immobilized them, silenced them, left their lungs devoid of breath. 'Don't move, don't speak, don't breathe' had not only been my survival psalm during the rape itself, it became theirs in the aftermath.”
― Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma
― Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma
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