Ali

“I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at night when no one else is alive
or awake
however you choose to see it
and I live in my own flames
sometimes burning too bright and too wild
to make things last
or handle
myself or anyone else
and so I run.
run run run
far and wide
until my bones ache and lungs split
and it feels good.
Hear that people? It feels good
because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
and I wish to do with it exactly as I please”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot speak out to heads of state, UN officials, and those that influence systems of oppression. And so I rant. And I will not stop ranting until my mission of equality of all girls is achieved.”
― Leymah Gbowee

“i want to love you with simple,
like a bare singular matchstick.
one
stroke
to ignite
with no words spoken
by the heated flames of the timber of crimsoned scarlet fire.
as it crackles
with close
separation
entangled with the intimacy of firefly ashes
choosing to enchantingly dance around in abundant
joy.
hazily whistling into the glorified heavens
making the ebony soot dissolve into the cool crisp air.
yearning to be the explosion who
burns
through your bones
as you visualize red ecstasy of a
provoked kindle.”
― zuky rose leigh

“A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?