( via / me )

"The land does not ask for loyalty, does not demand allegiance. It belongs only to those who honor it, who care for it, who kneel in the dirt with open hands rather than raised fists." (via Mefi)

"Raw, not solemn odes
are dew angels.

I’m raw as mirrored nets;
it is a party met on me.

Open one poem,
note my trap
as it is tender,
or rims a warm isle,
gnawed, erased on me,
lost on war."

--@merlinaacevedo.bsky.social

To Go to Lvov.

"If you can't stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?" --Ta-Nehisi Coates

"...and from the abyss emerge locusts."