Who are the other mammals
with cloven cracked
chests who stitch
sharp darts
in their flesh like I do?
I cannot celebrate or sing about this plot. The words that rise up are unfair, unjust, unholy. Truth tribunal, please commence; help us into a true story.
Sinéad, I hear that you’ve had or adopted four children. Is it true?
Will Enya who is childless come look after you?
I bought 20 flip phones at Walmart and activated them with phone numbers. This homeless camp was about to be swept by the city.
People without houses provide a gift to others when they ask for help. They give the opportunity to be of service. The chance to offer food or support is a valuable experience of selfhood. The ask lets us know a connection based on our basic survival needs as soft animals–our essential sameness.
Austin poet Abe Louise Young and Chicago poet Alan Shefsky exchanged over 3,000 intimate, playful, often-rhyming letters and ephemera over thirteen years, until Shefsky's death in 2014. At that time, Young created an art installation that displays 200 of those mailed pieces filling a space, which viewers can read and touch. It also offers a public letter-writing station filled with letter-writing prompts. Visitors have written over 400 letters.
