There’s something devastating in how ordinary everything feels — checkout lines, snow, baskets — and yet the violence hums underneath it all. The restraint makes it cut deeper.
Toumani Diabaté was one of the great Kora players. The sand will not forget her son. He was of that land. Indigenous. As always, you write truth from a fierce and beautiful heart. Abaraca 🙏
Perhaps we have reached point in our collective awareness were "indigenous" natively carries the weight of blood and sorrow and the echo of the insolence of invaders. But this, this piece not only brings that truth - it peels back a deeper reality: indigenous is blessing. transparent. raw. alive.
There’s something devastating in how ordinary everything feels — checkout lines, snow, baskets — and yet the violence hums underneath it all. The restraint makes it cut deeper.
Thank you for reading so deeply 🌌🖤
So beautiful!
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Toumani Diabaté was one of the great Kora players. The sand will not forget her son. He was of that land. Indigenous. As always, you write truth from a fierce and beautiful heart. Abaraca 🙏
Yes Toumani Diabaté has always been on of my favorites. Thank you for reading 🌌🩷
Always a pleasure. If you don’t know him, Seckou Keita is a fine Kora player from the Casamance region of Senegal.
indigenous is the only way forward. you’re a force.
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one indigenous song
snagged in barbed wire–
rust blooming orange.
Thanks for writing Pretty
Absolutely beautiful 😍
Thank you! 🪶🌌🖤
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I think you always do such a great job of adding color, in the literal and figurative sense, to your poetry.
Thank you for reading so deeply. I really appreciate you. 🖤🌌🪶
Perhaps we have reached point in our collective awareness were "indigenous" natively carries the weight of blood and sorrow and the echo of the insolence of invaders. But this, this piece not only brings that truth - it peels back a deeper reality: indigenous is blessing. transparent. raw. alive.
Thank you for reading 🪶🖤🌌
The way indigenous repeats slams the silence spoken into a face of matches that strike anywhere. Burns the books banned but memorized people live on.
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Yessssss. “…what won’t be forgotten.” Thank you. 🙏🏽