a figure in an orange shirt seen from behind on a boat, hands raised to a hat, water and palms ahead.

peace • poems

who made us

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april 2026 • video, 0:26

school work office; dais spaces required for socialization a kind of assimilation requisito a casual collision with intent how scholarship pro.motions titles who mean themselves in reciprocity; facilidad we are fooled and made foolish es sencillo simplemente, no es facil complexity never promised such; ease a qualifier for compatibility yet we use it; aún, aún an accompaniment without... a coupling a hinging a cadre a group a gathering with nothing in collision then what is the physics of care together? reunir our rhythym allowing love an organic calculus of skipped heartbeats donde nuestro muriendo convirtió nuestro en viviendo our violent sole made impact certain where moving on meant letting go fuimos llevadas nunca permitida atrapadas by its joy, ours carrying us further inside our inside; earth nosotras somos la tierra nuestra escaparnos. además ¿de qué sirve la consciencia sin terrícolas que compartan…?

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