I only noticed the color by how it happened to me; from where I stood, I was surrounded by a forest of light.
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Histories pass orally through cities, through centuries, and as I walk inside them I am held by every storyteller that came before me.
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Sade makes pain the centerpiece: showing us how bearing witness to the tragedy of history is a beautiful and necessary act in itself.
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People ran to keep their bodies tame, searched for every secret before the leaving.
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My grandmother introduced the piano to me through AM radio. She didn’t know piano, but she knew piano.
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How many times can you choose the thing that hurts before you can’t call it an accident anymore.
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Is the sforzando the registration or the dread?
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We said to the universe: Please drive faster. Said: Wait up, disaster! Maybe we have an inkling of what we’re summoning even as draw the circle on the floor.
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It’s a strange thing, to have a relationship with an instrument as complex and fraught as mine is with the harmonium.
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& now, spinning in the center of pandemic, what is celebration in an era of loss? Of isolation? She said resilience. I heard re-silence.
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