Jess

“I release you, fear, because you hold
these scenes in front of me and I was born
with eyes that can never close.”
― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

“I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.”
― Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

“Vision

The rainbow touched down
'somewhere in the Rio Grande,'
we said. And saw the light of it
from your mother's house in Isleta.
How it curved down between earth
and the deepest sky to give us horses
of color
horses that were within us all of this time
but we didn't see them because
we wait for the easiest vision
to save us.

In Isleta the rainbow was a crack
in the universe. We saw the barest
of all life that is possible.
Bright horses rolled over
and over the dusking sky.
I heard the thunder of their beating
hearts. Their lungs hit air
and sang. All the colors of horses
formed the rainbow,
and formed us
watching them.”
― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

“Our flesh has never been a boundary for the human being. We only reach out from there to occupy the space around us. Even more significantly, it occupies us.”
― Linda Hogan