“In the end, we must each tend to our own gulfs of sadness, though others can assist us with kindness, food, good words, and music. Our human tendency is to fill these holes with distractions like shopping and fast romance, or with drugs and alcohol.”
― Crazy Brave: A Memoir
― Crazy Brave: A Memoir
“The day is not made of light, but of will”
― Time
― Time
“Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. Let me call it, a garden.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“Poetry keeps the door open to awe and ensures that we will find our way through the broken heart field of wars, losses and betrayals to understanding, compassion and gathering together.”
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“The rain will eventually come, or not. Until then, we touch our bodies like wounds— the war never ended and somehow begins again.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
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