Just exactly as I remember
Every word
Every gesture
How could it all fall in one day
Were we too sure of the sun?
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.
Days in the Costa Rican rainforest, late December 2017 / early January 2018.
She is a punchline, she is a verb, she never knows when it’s going to happen. And that’s a really hard thing to outlive.
Dusk driving over gravel roads, along dusted fields, under North Dakota skies.
“Late on Tuesday night, America was once again reminded of the power of Black women. Exit polls show that 98 percent of Black women (and 93 percent of Black men) who cast ballots voted for Jones, while 63 percent of white women voted for Moore. On Wednesday morning, the media erupted with calls of “Thank you!” to Black women for showing up. But as Kamala Harris said, we need to do more than congratulate them. “Let’s address issues that disproportionately affect Black women—like pay disparity, housing & under-representation in elected office,” she tweeted. There are many organizations and causes that could use our support, give because Black women show up to save the country time and again.”
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