Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach – Determined By: B. F. Hansen, Mar 2023. 23 Apr 1997 Plant Atlas Citation
the privilege to be unbounded
On my walks, my eyes were sharper, hungrier—discerning the world (AA)
Cape Honeysuckle discerning the world
AG2025_1170201a or about the future
What Green Card Holders Should Know in Preparing to Travel Outside the U.S. (NYTimes)
border checkpoints have enacted what the White House refers to as “advanced vetting.” The measures, which include detaining and deporting tourists, have led allied countries, like Germany, to update travel advisories for their citizens about traveling to the United States
The Department of Homeland Security in April announced that it would screen immigrants’ social media for evidence of antisemitism, which it said would be grounds for “denying immigration benefit requests.” The screen looks for evidence of “endorsing, espousing, promoting, or supporting antisemitic terrorism,” according to the statement.
[…]Mr. Wildes also recommended that green card holders who travel frequently apply for Global Entry, a C.B.P. program that expedites the clearance process when entering the United States.
All I ever wanted was Bird’s game,
quietly telling opponents the spot on the floor where he
would
rise, after a screen and two dribbles, in the corner like a
yellow
sun and let the ball fly. I’m always writing to you
to remind myself that all love poems are about the future.
Under the bright lights of this metaphor, I’m digging deep,
not
vanishing when it matters most, to find the heart to take a
shot
when the clock winds down to nothing.
Bird, Tomás Q. Morín
May Day, ask for everything
Artists Space. Poetry Pending Revolution: A Reading and Discussion with Commune Editions, 2016.
“…remember
Red Epic, Joshua Clover
you can have what you ask for, ask for
everything”
raw and visceral. A lot of emotional stuff
Jack Whitten and art historian Richard Shiff, Walker Art Center in 2015, talks about September 11, 2001.
9.11.01, 2006. MoMA.
A trope is
A trope is nothing other than falling
in love with repetition! Buy
your girlfriend flowers that are
metaphorical—in the sense that stars
are always metaphorical [un-
purchaseable; henceforth! anti-
capitalist [?].] Look at yourself,
you’re 265 years old and still
breaking hearts, tenderly,
slowly, all those good ways—with words,
words, those secret mirrors.
Five Words for William Blake on His 265th Birthday (after Jack Spicer), S. Yarberry
Also, Tyger Quarterly, Issue 11: Fall 2024.
AG2020_1480772b- or don’t that be jazz?
Tamora’s baby came out Black, you say? Damn. The more
I hear of Aaron the Moor, the more I think: don’t that be jazz?
A note above ~ A note below ~ The note between ~
The tonic ~ Enclosed ~ Pivoted up ~ Octave ~ That be jazz.
Oh, if the bard could be Black! Her stride would be royal, jeweled toes?…?
your ideas must speak. Aaron and more. Till’s name still rises! That be jazz.
Such Sweet Thunder, A. Van Jordan
up into the silence
up into the silence the green
silence with a white earth in it
you will (kiss me) go
out into the morning the young
mourning with a young world in it
(kiss me) you will go
on into the sunlight the fine
sunlight with a firm day in it
you will go (kiss me
down into your memory and
a memory and memory
i) kiss me (will go)
AG2024_1960350aa or I don’t remember the fear of that year
[…]
But on this day
we sit in that room and play cards together
while I slip my papers in the half-moon tray
and take a number, wait for someone
behind the bulletproof glass to say
take another. And I feel only love.
I don’t remember the fear of that year,
or the fear of the years that hover
before and after. I remember
the windowless room and, outside,
Beforetimes, Margot Kahn