Status Updates From Cries of the Spirit: A Cele...

i think the essay setting up this collection led me to think that it was going to feel terfy and exclusionary, but it really doesn't feel that way at all

marked up more poems in these 30 pages than in the previous 150 combined lol

"but the point of suicide is, of course, that there is no one to call. not even if we really are there." Alta just rip my heart out and stomp on it next time omg it would hurt less

if i could insert images i would insert the one with the little guy clutching a doorframe saying "wait- i need a moment- i" while in tears

oh Ursula K Le Guin we're really in it now

Why is this one of the best poetry anthologies I've ever read

the green of Jesus/ is breaking the ground/ and the sweet/ smell of delicious Jesus/ is opening the house and/ the dance of Jesus music/ has hold of the air and/ the world is turning/ in the body of Jesus and/ the future is possible

love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling – love is active, effective... to make love is to make justice. for this reason loving involves commitment. we are not automatic lovers of self, others, world, or God. love does not just happen. We are not love machines, puppets on the sting of a diety called "love." love is a choice, a willingness to be present to others w/o pretense

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