Editor’s Note
What we need is a value system, and not just values. How can we create a system that helps us understand and structure our lives in a way that allows us to thrive by environmental design?
Economies of Harm
What hard truths do you need to examine about our current systems so you can see yourself more expansively in your own honesty?
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ReadThe Coop in August • The Last One to Get the Message
The form asks for / my job. Stay-at-home-parent, / a response given by the dozen, / lands wrong these months. -
ReadI want my story to be ordinary.
I / am ruined / how could I / ever leave / this wound -
ReadThis disappearing, how it makes • thread/bare
house become island, as inland pushes out / land. Outlandish, you say, this push and pull— -
ReadThose People
In 1996, the year my mother died of a heroin overdose, Purdue Pharma started to sell OxyContin in the United States. -
ReadNo One is Taking the Doughnut Shortage Seriously (and all that that implies)
— or the ketchup packet one / over in the adjacent deli, the dearth of good strawberries / in produce. -
ReadIn Bad Faith
Elsewhere a bell rings /medieval in its calling and here / I fumble for a reliquary -
ReadEnough Rain
Quail rise in ruffles from the sage. / Pebbles I scraped into my knee look / like they belong there. -
Readhere’s the space i carry. here’s the space that’s empty. • this our sunken sweet parade
so let’s talk then about unruliness / how it defies the joys of order & everything / that’s missed. -
ReadThere is No Other Way to Say This
Every morning the sparrows sing / Every day there is another funeral -
ReadThis Country is Motherless and Makes me Forget
I am not. Two weeks or more since a call. To be in America, / You must see American, close your eyes and dream American -
ReadSmoke Screens
The week the pandemic hits, I break my lease in Little Haiti and drive fifteen hours up the I-95 to be with my parents. -
ReadI wanted to wash my face and my feet. I wanted to be invited somewhere.
I was being led by something. So tender and raw inside of my body that I can’t point to a specific place — there was me before I had ever seen a dam. -
ReadHow to Deprogram a Parent in 7 Easy Steps
Do you have an elderly parent who has fallen victim to internet conspiracy theories? -
ReadCadet College, Kohat
Humza went to school with me in Kohat. We were always competing with each other for the first position in class. -
ReadInstructions for a Child of an Assembly Line
You are younger than her labor for [redacted aircraft manufacturing company]. -
ReadHTML Color Swatches in Black [Girl]
“taken-Black” …girl, too umber for proper / amber alert. Black / girl, skipped right past “missing” into / “Lost: B L A C K girl”. nobody / even noticed
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How do we claim the kind of joy that creates a rupture for passage through all the horror and despair? -
Issue 15ReadRoot Systems
How do we get back to the root of things — how can we pull up the weeds in our work to make space for new growth?