Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
took my daughter from me
drew her into the center
of their flower as she slept
she floated by her days
as if buoyed on the backs
of a small herd of wild horses
needled by some unknown force
outside her dreaming
beyond the touch of family
and when she drifted too far afield
from giving hands and blood
she sank deeper until nothing was left
but poppies, poppies
A raw journey through Muay Thai, rage, and fleeting healing in Northern Thailand—where violence becomes both discipline and catharsis.
A tender meditation on memory, wilderness, and estrangement, where childhood longing and ancient language entwine.
When fear stretches itself and awakens our strength / When noise stretches itself, and you start listening / and the beast stretches itself to become human / It is never…
The desert in Ximena Maldonado Sánchez’s paintings is not a place but a pulsing, radioactive body remembering heat, exile, and hallucination.
“I want a portal I can walk through to a place where people aren’t permitted to visit twice: youth. I want my parent’s laughter crackling through my ears half a…
A raw meditation on grief, voice, and the brutal clarity that follows loss—urging writers to abandon polish and write with unflinching truth.
A furious, unrelenting poetry of rupture—Almadhoun’s verses indict, mourn, and resist with devastating force.
Power is not in melted Buicks, not in making angels cower and sing your name in fear. There is no godhood for you, who have only sealed your name in…