Well the world has certainly sucked less for me this week thanks to your fantastic fic recs over at het_reccers. I've been reading a new one each day and they've been rocking my world. Thanks for all the time and care you put into that list.

Now, for the entertainment. Two poems. First, One Heart by Li-Young Lee

Look at the birds. Even flying
is born

out of nothing. The first sky
is inside you, open

at either end of day.
The work of wings

was always freedom, fastening
one heart to every falling thing.


This second one is by Joy Harjo. It's called The War Zone

Yesterday in the flare of smoke and temper-
we were brilliant warriors weary
from battling each other-
the illuminations of family ghosts
bright red in the storm.

The century is swept toward an inevitable end-
as summer trees sway beneath thunderclouds,
the wind flattening our faces-
Our teeth make refuge for our tongues,
skins pulled tight in the vertigo of fear
under unbearable
pressure.

We go on.