It is not the sand I seek
it is the turbulence of my agglutinative tongue
digging in defiance of viced currents
that pull me further than I have gone
further than the country that slips
and slips through
my finger
From 'At Sea' by Ru Freeman 🔗 rufreeman.com
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Poetry friends, please suggest collections that explore ritual (you get to define that word). I already have Poetry as Spellcasting, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, and all of CA Conrad's, Danielle Vogel's, and Annie Finch's work. #Poetry
Was such a great pleasure to edit this edition, which is full of incredible snd necessary work
From the Preface to our latest edition: The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance
“We stand on ancestral land. We walk through stolen cities. We return to sacred places. We resist with our bodies, with our breath, with our stories.”
#LitMag #Poetry
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"Buffalo Autumn' by Santa Fe #Artist Kathleen Frank.
🎨 Frank travels throughout the American West, seeking inspiration for her landscape paintings. Using vibrant hues, she captures light and pattern in her search for logic within complex terrains. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-g...