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A Love Song, by William Carlos WIlliams

What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet— I lie here thinking of you. The stain of love Is upon the world. Yellow, yellow, yellow, It eats into the leaves, Smears with saffron The horned branches that lean Heavily Against a smooth purple sky. There is no light— Only a honey-thick [ READ MORE ]

And because love battles, by Pablo Neruda

And because love battles not only in its burning agricultures but also in the mouth of men and women, I will finish off by taking the path away to those who between my chest and your fragrance want to interpose their obscure plant. About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what [ READ MORE ]

miss rosie by Lucille Clifton

R.I.P. Lucille Clifton. Women of color poets and all the people your work holds up will miss you. miss rosie by Lucille Clifton when I watch you wrapped up like garbage sitting, surrounded by the smell of too old potato peels or when I watch you in your old man’s shoes with the little toe [ READ MORE ]

BrownFemiPower on what it means for women of color to dismantle the patriarchy

“But I will say that It’s past time for men of color who consider themselves allies to women of color, who recognize that their freedom can’t come at the expense the women who share their history, to meditate on and interact with the words, the ideas, the actions of the women of their communities. Its [ READ MORE ]

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