Artemisia Moon

Artemisia Moon September 17, 2020 Partial List For a Medicine Bundle For the World Texture. Tension. Brilliance. Release. Descent. Floating. Weight. Return. Imagination. Compassion. (Same thing.) A willingness to feel. To effort for an imagined compassion. Salvias for drought. Evergreens for winter. Sunflowers for the mice. Rhubarb. Wild water. A changing sky. Earth […]
Collective Liberation Love Song

Full Moon, September 2, 2020 Collective Liberation Love Song If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. —Aboriginal activist group, Queensland, Australia, […]
Changing Face Moon

Changing Face Moon New Moon, August 19, 2020 Palpitation palimpsest layers overlaid, no rest to ride in circles, so boring again: just this, just this art & nature as orphans stories channeling themselves into being now remember when crests were younger a face of sun wavering, irregular contractions in the night, […]
Voice-Finding Moon

Full Moon, August 3, 2020 Voice-Finding Moon Too many people in the U.S. support death and destruction without being aware of it. They indirectly support the killing of people without ever having to look at the corpses. —Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala (“for the people”) Shakur (“the thankful one” In the silence, voice.In the […]
Four Letter Moon

New Moon July 20, 2020 Four Letter Moon Nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin Imagine love wants to see your true face Imagine that nothing matters except love Imagine love as you Imagine love as everything you’ve ever given attention to Imagine love abides in […]
Universal Liberation Moon

Full Moon July 5, 2020 Universal Liberation Moon The way: No one is free until all are free. Before jumping to the next action the next necessary thing, the righteous & timely, before gridding the domino trajectory of plunder systems failing & falling & painting in the living manuscript of a new brilliant […]
Juneteenth Breakthrough Moon

New Moon Solstice, June 21, 2020 Juneteenth Breakthrough Moon The sweet floral rind of mock orange merging with drifting locust blossoms before the river of life before the swelling buds of 95 year old pear tree before breakthrough is hardest dark It’s come to this again new moon eclipse & systemic racism […]
Fiery Moon of Radical Interdependence

Full Moon June 5, 2020 Fiery Moon of Radical Interdependence https://www.instagram.com/p/CA2voOhpdSP/ In the midst of fire love In the midst of fire love In the midst of fire love The necessary reaches beyond the possible the just & good abide in breath the creative collaborate the grief fuels awakening the mistakes connect the pattern […]
Defend Black Lives

Art by Cece Carpio. IG @cececarpio, cececarpio.comas featured in “No Going Back: a COVID-19 Cultural Strategy Activation Guide for Artists & Activists by the Center for Cultural Power Defend Black Livesfor the Benefit of All “love & justice are not two. without inner change, there can be no outer change; without collective change, no change […]
Moon of Gathering Courage

New Moon May 22, 2020 Moon Of Gathering CourageTo Travel Dark Roads With TrustIn Wild Grace & Rhythmic Dignity shadows release light over timeinvisible forces tussle prayer flagswalls of the old come tumblingdown & longer goes the sun’s arc the spring dark moon of Mayechoes the wandering haiku:even in this vibrant moment,missing this vibrant moment confessional, vulnerable, […]