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manifesto

A cream vintage rectangle doily lays on a black background. Upon the middle of the textile piece is a cream piece of paper. Centered on the paper, in red typewritten ink, are the words 'all my tattered longings'.

manifesto

I live and write in the grips of an unbreakable hope.

A hope that no matter how deep the holes that fall us,
no matter the bending, breaking, mending,
will always sit at the heart of the matter.

A hope that hollers and hurts and holds and heals.

A hope that leaves … only to return with ladders and microscopes.
A hope that sweeps voices out from under the carpet … and plays.

A hope that sees the worst, speaks the worst, knows the worst, yet
seeks the source for another, always another, romantic-as-all-fuck love poem.

A hope that I will not leave to be left unspoken.

manifesto: put into words July 2015
image: all my tattered longings: typewritten text, paper, found fabric, indigo eli, 2011

Be kindness.
Do kindness.
Share kindness.

words: Oct 2017


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