life + death

Image: detail of tikal tapestry / unknown mayan artist / mfa, boston

upon a human effigy jar (haiku)

human effigy
bare maize cob—bones without flesh
jar of life + death

image: human head effigy jar / unknown mayan artist / mfa boston

What I’m Reading:

“Indigenous thinkers not only acknowledge contingency and humans’ lack of control in the world; they also see it as empowering and humbling, not something frightening.”

— Daniel Wildcat / Haskell Indian Nations University

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About istsfor manity

i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....
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