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The pain tree grows by absorbing pain. Now it looks dead. But one day it will bloom again.

A project of poetry and art to help us get through a difficult year. Weekly poems and drawings from @seanccroberts.bksy.social and Dana Robins.
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A painting of a raised open hand with purple haze swirling around it. Accompanied by the following poem: Dutch tears A citizen mother and child are separated and detained for hours, for speaking Spanish in a public park. That could have been me. A researcher complained over text about the suicidal destruction of science and got deported without saying a word. That could have been me. A protesting priest holds up his hands in supplication and takes a pepper ball to the head. That could have been me. Activists are threatened with arrest for shouting legal defense strategy to migrants as they are disappeared. That could have been me. The undesirables and degenerates are made to register themselves. Hundreds, thousands, who could have passed for fash put themselves on every list. That could have been me. People hide their neighbors in attics for days, for months, for years. Some are caught and unpersoned, but the rest are an ark of community. That could have been me. All the citizens are rounded up in the square. Who threw the sabot into the machine? the men with guns bleat at us. I raise my hand, as do we all. We say – That could have been me.
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM