Author Archives: aidarends

a late daughtering. a late offering to didi. didi being short for diana. a statue the goddess or the man who knew i fixed a bead on the containment of all human emotions. slowly tried to breathe but found every efforts cut short cut dreams cut grasses savory lights beamed lights in from above theContinue reading “a late daughtering”

my mother is learning to playall the things she couldn’t play my mother is learning to sayall the things she couldn’t say and i am witness to this glorious glorious woman whatever we make we make together i am witness

While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor. He does not seek to influence the oppressor, he seeks to influence the oppressed. — Read on redsails.org/the-pitfalls-of-liberalism/

An excerpt from Lucinda Williams’s memoir “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” about being in love with the poet Frank Stanford, and about his suicide. — Read on http://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-poet-who-became-my-muse