April 2012
14 posts
Louise & Minou
Our neighbour, who is a very old and interesting lady with very poor hearing, thinks we are Jewish and buys us Manischewitz for all occasions. Today is Kevin’s birthday and I found a bottle of it wrapped up in tissue paper held together with a wire twist tie and an unsigned birthday card attached on our back porch. I don’t know how she knew it was Kevin’s birthday. Once, soon...
In a west end radiology clinic I told the technician to tell me that no one has ever had cancer at 31, not ever, and he started to say that it was very very rare and I said “no, say NEVER” and he said it for me and I was pressed against the x-ray machine with my arms around it, like we were slow dancing.
One night two years ago, in our old apartment, the house next to us caught fire. Louise woke me up and there were lights flashing everywhere and there was smoke in my house and I went downstairs to see what was going on and when I got outside there were flames and firemen and all our neighbours standing there in their pyjamas, half of them holding cats. I ran upstairs and threw my cats in a...
Life and death on my street in Sarajevo Barbara Demick (The Guardian, 2012)
Adrienne Rich died. Feminism would not be the way it is without her.
Twenty-One Love Poems Adrienne Rich
I Wherever in this city, screens flicker with pornography, with science-fiction vampires, victimized hirelings bending to the lash, we also have to walk… if simply as we walk through the rainsoaked garbage, the tabloid cruelties of our own neighborhoods. We need to grasp our lives...
