Ana King

“To overcome the need to be productive, as a lot of productivity is destructive.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“She scrubs me until I spit
soapy water.
Pig, she smiles.
A man should smell better than his country—
such is the silence
of a woman who speaks against silence, knowing
silence moves us to speak.
She throws my shoes
and glasses in the air,
I am of deaf people
and I have
no country but a bathtub and an infant and a marriage bed!
Soaping together
is sacred to us.
Washing each other’s shoulders.
You can fuck
anyone—but with whom can you sit
in water?”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

“Earth Breathes in Us.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

“Life is free, food grows on trees.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine