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I Hold my Daughter's Hand.

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."

--Frederick Douglass, 1857 via @margaret.bsky.social

"It galls me to say it, but many people on the European far right are acting more like responsible statespeople than the American cabinet right now, which is mostly behaving like a chaos agent without a real sense of what the long-term strategy is." (via @katewagner.bsky.social)

"Papyrus Pantoum

Coyotes surround a buck · staggering in the snow—
under a rising moon, we step · along a ridge of white sand;

sandhill cranes return in low Vs · and land in a cornfield—
in Bolivia, they extract · lithium out of Altiplano salt fiats;

under a rising moon, · we step along a ridge of white sand—
“You burn me” · torn off papyrus wrapped around a corpse;

in Bolivia they extract lithium · out of Altiplano salt flats—
a claret cup cactus flowers · among sandstone rubble;

'You burn me' torn · off papyrus wrapped around a corpse—
rain makes quicksilver · strikes on the surface of a lake;

a claret cup cactus · flowers among sandstone rubble—
in twilight, we sway · and surge into flame;

rain makes quicksilver strikes · on the surface of a lake—
coyotes surround · a buck staggering in the snow;

in twilight, we sway and surge · into flame—
sandhill cranes return · in low Vs and land in a cornfield."

--Arthur Sze at poems.com

Poseable Action Figure.