Ragged Company

Simple, lovely – the best thing since Maurice Sendak’s little-known posters celebrating reading and those vintage ads for libraries. 

“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”

It seems like a fitting time to reread this since I woke up this morning and realized just how short a distance there is between us and the Republic of Gilead 👍

First the outside-legs of the bear Up and fell down, in the water, like knobby garters Then the outside-arms of the bear Fell off, as easy as if sloughed From boiled tomatoes Low’red in a genteel curtsy Bear shed the mantle of her Diluvian shoulders; And, with a sigh She allowed the burden of belly to drop Like an apron full of boulders If you could hold up her Threadbare coat to the light Where it’s worn translucent in places You’d see spots where Almost every night of the year Bear had been mending Suspending that baseness Now her coat drags through the water Bagging, with a life’s-worth of hunger Limitless minnows; In the magnetic embrace Balletic and glacial Of bear’s insatiable shadow —