February 2011
Random Thoughts
She is leaving
again.
And I am trapped.
Feet weighing heavy with things
I cannot form
my language
around.
Her hands cold
as they reach for mine.
Grazing fingertips,
familiar
and
brand
new.
-HF (Jan 30th)
January 2011
“I live in subtraction.
I forget your name.
I forbid my heart it’s mind....”
– June Jordan (I Live in Subtraction)
“I couldn’t tell you why I think they constantly after me.
Maybe its cuz...”
– Black Thought
“Some
times
I turn a corner
of my mind
& u be there
loooooooookin
at me...”
– Sonia Sanchez
“When you came
you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my...”
– Amy Lowell
“If I were young,
I would stretch you with my wild words while our nights run...”
– Sonia Sanchez
“All that you touch
can change.
All that you change
changes you.
The only...”
– Octavia E. Butler
“Something about you
all of us
with songs inside
knifing the air of sorrow...”
– Jessica Hagedorn (Something About You)
“Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set...”
– August Wilson
“You can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger...”
– Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
“daughters choosin to be women
lick their wounds with their own spit
til they...”
– Ntozake Shange (Resurrection of the Daughter)
“My hands
Open the curtains of your being
Clothe you in a further nudity...”
– Octavio Paz (Touch)
“We found each other
Hungry
And we bit each other
As fire bites,
Leaving...”
– Pablo Neruda (Absence)
“Drunk as drunk on turpentine
From your open kisses,
Your wet body wedged...”
– Pablo Neruda (Drunk as Drunk)
“Feelings are good servants but poor masters.”
– Ancient Egyptian Proverb
“If you bring forth what is within you,
What is within you will save you.
If...”
“When music and you close by
i have to shut my eyes remembering
which one of...”
– Marvin K White (Foursomes)
“In order to rise from the ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
– Octavia Butler
“It’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind.”
– She Hate Me
“We are all here for a reason on a particular path
You don’t need a...”
– J. Ivy (Never Let You Down)
“What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.”
– Alice Walker
Venus in Scorpio (freewrite)
The Scorpio Venus is rising. I am strangling space with my sting. And needing to posess Something warm and near. (The irony, of the Scorpio being the final straw: It has stung us both.) My posession Beyond four walls Is too risky. I struggle to understand. Don’t watch as I walk away. I can’t stand to feel your eyes Apologizing.
-HF (Jan 18th, 2011)
“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the...”
– Billie Holiday
“Give me fire and I will sing you morning
Finding you heart
And a birth of...”
– Audre Lorde (A Lover’s Song)
“the kisses they take a slow blues walk
back to me
in the palm of my hand
they...”
– Ntozake Shange (its happenin/ but you dont know abt it)
“i cant allow you to look at me
how you do so i am naked and wantin
to be...”
– Ntozake Shange (its happenin/ but you dont know abt it)
“Did I ever love him? Or did I just love the exquisite pain of loving someone so...”
– Carrie (Sex and the City)
“Tell me who you love and I’ll tell you who you are.”
– Creole Proverb
“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful. Because we have had...”
– Audre Lorde
