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21st May 2020

New poem. Reblog from my post only, hearts are welcome.
the Pacific
When tourists talk of the Pacific, they think
white sand - bright colors.
Soft, easy living.
Me, a second-gen American,
I think
of the deep
water
where the devilfish and crocodiles live.
where the Spanish galleons are torn to pieces
spilling our gold back into the Pacific.
Haik, my people’s sea-god
laughs, as deep
as an earthquake
and thick bracelets on his thick arms glow
like he raided them back
like a pirate.
I ask him,
“Why do you love me? I don’t know anything about you.”
This is not merely lack of information
For my people were ordered
by gunpowder
to follow a foreigner’s God
leaving me with wounds
five hundred years deep
where there should be stories
of a god
who comes out of the Pacific
tattooed with crocodile scales
and covered in pagan gold.
I ask
Haik, my people’s sea-god
to tell me his stories
so I can make fifty thousand copies
and sail them
across the Pacific
locked in the wounds in my chest.
He laughs
(but sadder this time)
wrapping gold-heavy arms across my shoulders
and whispers to write new ones.

7.14.19
finishing my summer reading during my first day in la (ft some fruit from the farmers market !) ~~click for higher quality~~ ☀️🍑💫🍃
listening to: lost in los angeles by the millennial club

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25th Dec 2019

5:03 am

tree correspondences. 🌳

lunaeuxs:

Birch: traditional witch broom, cleansing, protection, purification, children (cradles)
Oak: defense, thunder, strength, courage, healing, longevity, protection, good fortune
Maple: love, prosperity, life, health, abundance
Pine: cleansing, purification, healing, clarity of mind, prosperity, protection from evil
Cedar: healing, spirituality, purification, protection, prosperity, harmony
Rowan: improving psychic powers, divination, healing, protection from evil, peace, creativity, success, change, transformation
Poplar: prosperity, communication, exorcism, purification
Ash: water, strength, intellect, willpower, protection, justice, balance, harmony, skill, travel, weather, wisdom
Willow: the moon, the Goddess, feminine cycles, growth, renewal, love, tranquility, harmony, protection, healing
Witch hazel: protection, healing, peace
Honeysuckle: transitional states, psychic awareness, harmony, healing, prosperity, happiness
Apple: life, longevity, fertility, afterlife, fairies, creativity, underworld, love, healing, harmony, longevity
Elder: protection (especially against lightning), prosperity, healing
Yew: death, spirits, the otherworld
Hawthorn: fertility, harmony, happiness, the otherworld, protection
Hazel: Thor, Brigid, Apollo, luck, fertility, protection, wish granting
Elm: love, protection
Eucalyptus: protection, healing
Juniper: cleansing, purification, protection against accidents and illness, love, anthitheft, fertility, psychic abilities
source: the green witch by arin murphy-hiscock.

Butterfly illustrations by Vladimir Nabokov

You are allowed to admit that you do not know what you are going to do with your life yet. You are allowed to admit that you do not know what your passions are yet. It is simply okay if you do not know what you want to do someday. There is no need to feel ashamed if you cannot present a fully structured plan to others if they ask about your future. That does not make you weird and it definitely does not make you a loser, my love. You are allowed to not know - because you really do not have to. You have so much time to explore yourself, to find out what makes your heart happy and to stumble upon a path that you want to walk. It is okay if you have no clue what you want to do in the future, or even right now. It is absolutely okay, darling. Take your time.

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10th Dec 2019

2:39 am