happy bday writer Natalie Diaz, b.1978, Ft. Mojave Village Indian Village, CA
“Trust your anger. It is a demand for love.”
“I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.”
“There are wild flowers...
And my puppy turns one
....in my desert which take up to twenty years to bloom. The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand until a flash flood bolts the arroyo, lifting them in its copper current, opens them with memory— they remember what their god whispered into their ribs: Wake up and ache for your life.”
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