Headlights

This is an absolutely brilliant poem. The imagery is unique and the originality just felt spectacular.

what I am feeling like right now + maybe this won’t be me 5 years from now, I am hopeful

sometimes I wondered if I lived a life or a margin in some ideological footnote a mundane little hum that could be erased by the dust that is at the corners of some sanguine hourglass where the glass knew me as some distant microbe not too tough to taste but gelatinous enough to stick and

1st Eid without my Father

from Eid to Eden — I nurtured a song that was both a vigil, an explosion of prayers like stardusts and moon-crescent globes all appearing in a wave, in a cool yet warm succulent slice — this is the first Ramadan where I fasted and feasted without my familial Father; always spearheading the sojourn of

When Woman Is Boss: Nikola Tesla on Gender Equality and How Technology Will Unleash Women’s True Potential | Brain Pickings

I like a lot of articles from brainpickings.org and I like to reblog many to all of them if I could. I really liked this article as well. I hope it can be enjoyed with many of Maria Popova’s other works. via When Woman Is Boss: Nikola Tesla on Gender Equality and How Technology Will

writing about writing + a brief interlude through my mind thinking + some other stuff

sometimes in the clearing away of it I see other mists — retractable wrists opening into a marrow-song; it’s how I write how I swerve into cul-de-sacs and tenable meadows or can move from this and that freely… sometimes my hands fascinate me with their imperial thrones of bones and knuckle-busts prancing or swaying, or

The Dawn of Racism

And Racism in Australia easily defined

Arrowpoints

This poem is something that needs to be felt. It is an honest confession and honest emotion of what that feels.

Circumspect: Learning about RSS so late

I have never understood the efficacy or need for RSS. “Rich Site Summary” — I didn’t know until recently that RSS means this. My ignorance of such a basic net phenomenon shocked me. My incredibly, incredulous ignoramus attitude made me feel, well stupid. I had not the need for RSS despite it being the most

Rights and Desires

Originally posted on Etches of Ink and Light:
“The world,” writes Milan Kundera, “has become man’s right and everything in it has become a right.” Indeed! We do not say we want to love, but that we have a right to love. We do not say we want to be friends but that we have the right…

Urbane apocalypse and post-apocalypse with its macho pronouns ignoring the masculine/maleness and feminine/femaleness in other discourses

Sometimes things come to you in unexpected ways. To me it did. I mean you are not really consciously thinking about them and perchance through some creative exercise you get to meet them. The concept of post-apocalyptic fictions have always been explored but to me the current trends of urbane apocalypse like Walking Dead or