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Ableism Gripe #726

Crooked by Amoret BriarRose My serpentine spine did not gift Eve with the apple; good posture is not magic is not a cure-all is not integrity made flesh. Featured Image:  Mariana in the South, 1897, John William Waterhouse [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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A Bridge is no Country

A Bridge is No Country

Image: A Bridge is No Country by Amoret

The Risk
by Amoret BriarRose

They say that a bridge is no country
and thus I wonder, when I reach out,
extend toward another, do I then
lose sovereignty to gain connection,
risk self to touch other…
or do we blend together, boundaries
wavering as watercolors, soaking up
the pigment of what we become
together?

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A Spine For All Seasons

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be. ~Clementine Padford

A Spine For All Seasons by Amoret

Image: A Spine For All Seasons by Amoret

A Spine For All Seasons
by Amoret BriarRose

And if your spine was a sword, what then?
Could it bear the weight of all seasons,
cutting when necessary
blessing when necessary
knowing hearts are both stones and feathers?

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Rise

We Are the Ones by Amoret BriarRose Don’t despair! We are indeed made for these times, born for this dying empire breathing tired air and drinking troubled waters, rising from so many fires, exactly what is needed. Image: Need and Joy by Amoret