Painting by Ray Osborn #mentalillness #schizophenia #callinghomefromidaho Click to read Ray’s previous installments. Human Value It is the right to crystallize people you find lacking worth. You gum your faculties. I am not as sharp as a diamond and will not let you shape me or carve some eternal chant into my soul. My soul is a piece of bone, rubbed in sand and dirt. Do...
This week, Ray’s poems meditate on God, religion, and race, and the ways in which God and religion are leveraged as weapons against particular races. Nativity William Carlos Williams tried to write an accurate history of the Americas. It began with acclimation of Christ but soon lagged from the inured inhabitants. The beginning is always hard to discuss precluded by the...
#williamblake #godasarchitect #1794 #bycandlelight #god #theancientdays #england Miss last week’s post? Catch up at this link. Fascist Conclusions At the beginning of the war there were waves that dipped below the surface of my body and trapped panic in scores of gilt fish. The illuminated manuscript of my body was rapt to those watching in delayed fascination, hoping for...
CONTENT WARNING: The following poems concern themselves with themes and topics of sexual assault, sexual harassment, abuse, and sexism. Please continue reading with this in mind. Editor’s Introduction: For the past two weeks, survivors of sexual assault have been under siege by coverage and discussions surrounding the Supreme Court appointment hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. These events...