WestCoastCliche
@WestCoastCliche@beige.party
Writer with words appearing in Cleaver, The MacGuffin, JMWW, Peatsmoke Journal, Blue Lake Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, and a dozen others. Pushcart and Best of the Web nominee. I teach prose and poetry at the Writers Studio. Mostly retired academic cardiologist. I live in San Francisco and west Sonoma County with my wife Bobbi and Kerry Blue terrier Trey. Socialist, sentimentalist, grew up in Canada near Toronto but American now too. #creativewriting, #Ukraine, #climate
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@streetartutopia@mastodon.online That quote is from a wonderfully dramatic poem about immigrants called "Home" by Warsan Shire. The poem begins, "No one leaves home unless/ home is he mouth of a shark/ you only run for the border/ when you see the whole city running as well."