(Carolina Maria de Jesus).
"Maybe when I wake up in the middle of the night
I should go downstairs
dump the refrigerator contents on the floor
and stand there in the middle of the spilled milk
and the wasted butter spread beneath my dirty feet
writing poems
writing poems..." (June Jordan)
Matins (excerpt)
at every turn
in every guise, iron ball,
egg, dark horse, shadow,
cloud
of breath on the air,
dwell
in our crowded hearts
our steaming bathrooms, kitchens full of things to be done, the ordinary streets.
Thrust close your smile
that we know you, terrible joy.
(Denise Levertov)
Revolutionary Letter #42
"what is this 'overpopulation' problem, have you
looked at it, clearly, do you know
ten times as much land needed if we eat hamburger, instead of grain; we can
all fit, not hungry, if we minimize
our needs, RIP OFF LARGE, EMPTY RANCHES, make the
food
nutrititious; chemical fertilizers
have to go, nitrates
poison the water; large scale machine farming
has to go, the soil
is blowing away (300 years
to make one inch of topsoil), do you know...?"
(Diane Di Prima)
The photos on the site are incredibly clear and engaging.
ReplyDeleteThose last pictures of the food market there just make me wish summer was around the corner. When I was little my parents use to have a garden. We had potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, corn, cucumber, and whatever else that I cant think of. I remember my i loved going out to dig the potatoes out of the dirt and getting all dirty. And my most favorite was picking green beans because then my parents and I would sit on the backporch and snap the ends off and then go back through and snap them into smaller pieces. Ocassionaly we would can depending on what we weren't going to use for the week. Unfortunately, as we (my siblings and I) got older, the garden was no more. Thanks to my health and nutrition class that I had a couple semester ago, I think, I got this crave to start up my own garden. This past summer was my first garden I had done by myself. It didnt go so swell, but I still had a lot of fun. I had gotten busy with work and fell behind in planting my seeds so needless to say everthing fell behind. I just got to busy. I was happy I gave it a shot though. It was fun. I hope this next summer goes a lot better.
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