Brittany

“I think blue is there because the earth and sky are one and the same and if they are we all have a bit of heaven and a bit of earth and one of the things we definitely know is that the exact same proportion of salt to water in the sea is as salt to water in the human blood so all we really know is that we are connected with everything and each other and sometimes you just have to hand it to God when you see a baby hummingbird drinking at the petunias or you see your okra plant being consumed by little black bugs and you say to yourself I ought to spray those things because they are attacking one of my favorite vegetables but then you say to yourself as a better part of yourself maybe it’s not the best idea to strike at something which is only trying to do what I am trying to do which is live out the full measure of its life”
― Nikki Giovanni, Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems – Poetry That Galvanizes and Comforts, Inspires and Unifies

“I think about the black and white photo of the construction workers having lunch on the scaffolding. Those men aren’t up there anymore. They’re backend coders. They buy Bitcoin and pitch up their voices on Ableton. They’re on my For You page because they’re for me. We’re the American workforce and our scaffolding is on Zoom.”
― Madeline Cash, Earth Angel

“I will render you as you really were, neither cast in pristine stained glass nor unholy fire. I will make you into nothing more than a man,”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“Cars rolled by out the window like water. A highway is another way to outrun”
― Molly Llewellyn, Be Gay, Do Crime