Every strawberry tells a love story. Not the kind sold in candy, but a story rooted in sacrifice. Farmworkers harvest with care, yet they face low wages and fear. Love means respect. Love means justice. Love means standing with farmworkers. #ValentinesDay #WeFeedYou

#BornBattleReady #vss365 as I cross the #lacuna at 4am I see that joker Shem he needs 6 C batteries 4 the keyboard he keeps wi' him I steal a mag light off a floorboard seen Early acrost the parkin' lot, he had 2 more we went to the graveyard & sang Jerry Lee Lewis songs youtu.be/Y1l50slBaGg?...

The Sharp-billed Treehunter is a nimble forager, often hanging upside down as it flits on trees and vine tangles gleaning for insects. Its small size and agility allow it to find prey often hidden to other species. Click here to see these acrobats in action: birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/shbtre1

#BornBattleReady I'm drawin' a blank up since B4a.m. lookin' alive but I threw some stank on the subject in 2005 I pulled it from my picture bank saves me from a new pen jive but holds the same rank as other memories I revive

This week's #BornBattleReady prompt word is: 4a.m. Submit your poem by using our hashtag (QRT with hashtag if no space). Include your poem in this 🧵 for added engagement! Submissions close Sunday at 9am EST The only rule is to aim for the heart — and don’t miss! 🖤⚔️🤍

#vss365 I lost my job writing poetry & the ladies at the flower shop no longer pay for calligraphy since their wedding business came to a stop so I'm pluckin' ostrich on the run for #Lacuna Boots & Belts a different full quill fun the hats are from beaver pelts youtu.be/ybClkwe-iH0?...

#SenseWrds 184 we weren't sure about the springs true to life they could've used some oiling but that old mattress felt like heaven with downy strings that eased a day's toiling as ye snuggle away strife think about the good things but keep a hand on yer knife youtu.be/2C3TTD2vKv8?...

#RetroArtPrompt #haiku #vss365 #darkness beckons light the #constellations can hear #ReleaseTheArrow + a bonus #poem I wrote a few years ago with a different handle 😆

#vss365 #emoetry god amighty no they flung animosity with velocity & its #ferocity hit me low here's the deal tho I ain't a leaky vessel full o porosity & I can unleash an atrocity with #darkness in tow so let's stick to a philosophy of kindness or let's damn the torpedoes youtu.be/9HvNd8iJ67A?...

#vss365 I wrote a #pantoum a while back that's all about the #dark in a juxtaposed sense. I'm pretty sure I used some lines from it for a vss #poem, a few weeks ago... 😆

#vss365 I swapped some cat a big ass roach for half a tray o jello shots it got #dark after that as I watched noon approach hangin' with the have nots youtu.be/fB9Ru1wdrwA?...

#vss365 oft we may wonder why some people don't fit in a world full of lies the ones that #touch you like a person with aura & hand then you see it Struggle in their eyes & you understand youtu.be/NEiW5YMiNvI?...

#vss365 the girl at the gas station asked to ask me a question I sed shoot expecting some trivial tempestion she asked if she could hug me then walked around the counter & stood on my boot & embraced me I #touched her hair & told her it'd be ok there was a line she don't work there no more

#vss365 #emoetry if I see a jellyfish washed up on the shore I'm compelled to #touch it & poke holes in it with any item I have no #empathy or sympathy for the stingin' rottenin' fuckers, fore that's right I'd hit em with a golf club just to spite em youtu.be/wdnD_H-eCbQ?...

I was leaving the park when I noticed two Bald Eagle calling and chasing each other overhead. One landed on a nearby branch with the other in close pursuit, flying right past as if to bump him/her off the perch. The eagle doing the chasing has a bit of jewelry; he/she is banded on the right foot.

It's appropriate on #BlackHistoryMonth we uplift Kevin's voice. He's been a Jamaican H2A worker for the last 10 yrs & is excited over the implementation of his UFW contract at NYs Wafler Farms. He's looking forward to getting the benefits his contract provides. #UnionsForAll

#vss365 Rodknocker's engines was #achin' so he sidled into a stop for biscuits eggs & bacon & hi test filled to the top a cup o mud a highway tale like Elmer Fudd on a wabbit twail hit the wall with a thud while chasin' tail youtu.be/m2-HKlTuoqg?...

We're living in a terrifying new reality. Trump's DHS mob are killing US citizens, kidnapping kids and terrorizing hard working immigrants - including the farm workers who feed us. Call your Senators TODAY! Tell them don't fund ICEs terror campaign! act.seiu.org/a/do_not-fun... #ICEout

#emoetry #vss365 #blissfulness #pales her blush what a rush huh up from the valley strolled a sunday afternoon I knew it was time to rally the demons in the bassoon at a symphony in the alley that ends on a pontoon so the jukebox don't sink in a flooded room youtu.be/cwESiisp27U?...

#vss365 I miss her #pale green eyes on mornings like today they'd be blue as the skies & pointed my way my how time flies into disarray youtu.be/NKqERfuNlX8?...

#vss365 by the 50th hour everyone that needed to be there was but I was the man by the 50th hour everyone that needed to be there was aware that I couldn't let em put another hole in her & the #blood she was losing was no longer hers & there wasn't gonna be any more holes in her by the 50th hour

Dual launch of Blue Jays at the stump.

#BornBattleReady in that last poem that I wrote one that's a typographical error one that's intentional it's up to the reader to decide which that's which & which that's calloused fingers didn't feel twitch that's it youtu.be/cM4kqL13jGM?...

#BornBattleReady #vss365 as a lad, they'd beat me about the head until all I could see was red they sed don't run with muchachos their #wound hasn't yet bled & one can only suppose they're better off dead stop that's that's how callousness grows I made friends instead youtu.be/TsWAF-zZf_I?...

#vss365 #BornBattleReady hands #calloused eyes ain't I go hard in the paint not a bard just a haint #wounds scarred lookin' faint oak tree back yard matron saint broken glass shard diamonds taint mason jarred canned can't youtu.be/or0pPY7sTkw?...

This week's #BornBattleReady prompt word is: CALLOUS Submit your poem by using our hashtag (QRT with hashtag if no space). Include your poem in this 🧵 for added engagement! Submissions close Sunday at 9am EST The only rule is to aim for the heart — and don’t miss! 🖤⚔️🤍

#vss365 once you hang out with enough scars you understand we're all #wounded in similar ways & some unique to us as well as others youtu.be/c9HNjW2Rx60?...

#vss365 she was my #wound I was her debridement eclipsed by a red moon wondering what freedom meant listening faster than the sound of sight but only seeing like the tide at night twice as bright it's just our astral being made of light youtu.be/0dnibCQtdFE?...

#vss365 #emoetry #wound up in the nuthouse once when I was #wounded way beyond #wistful my wherewithal wearily returned in a moment rather blissful a group therapy session that's only lesson was to dance through a soul train line after I danced mine I felt fine & smiled youtu.be/oMUvJcztjEg?...

"Karla" has worked under a UFW contract for 20 years at a vineyard in Soledad, CA. During peak season she is a tractor operator. However currently, she's pruning the grapevines. "Thanks to my seniority I am able to start working as soon as the season begins." #WeFeedYou

A female Pileated Woodpecker heading out from a tree to check out a fallen log.

#emoetry #vss365 she had a winsome air #lambent glassy eyes with an #uncomfortable stare perhaps her smile was a disguise I complimented her on her hat & she gripped her writing utensil & sed these motherfuckers won't let me go then stabbed me with a map pencil short visit, that day

"Susana" is hard at work pruning grapevines. She says that because she is a woman, she was underestimated, but she is proud that she has become one of the top workers on her pruning crew. #WeFeedYou

#vss365 a few #ghostly #poems I wrote, under a different name 😆

#vss365 he had a new truck with a Lincoln welder in the bed #ghost money from grandpa's death he had a good brain in his head but his wildness wouldn't let it catch its breath until 1 mornin' he killed a guy & didn't know where he was at he just stopped in to say hi after doin' 10 years flat

#vss365 every few months the gears unwind & the #ghost of an editor comes alive in the back of my mind & nuthin I write can survive I usually delete the account standin' on razes & start a new 1 in a week then reuse some old phrases & call it a fluidity tweak youtu.be/HBpZI2Omeb4?...

#vss365 besides #pain wtf else ya got to offer? I mean you could kill me😆 that's about it... move along, & find somebody skeert or let's get to scroungin' god damnit youtu.be/rF0GmnpPSWc?...

#emoetry #vss365 #RetroArtPrompt tho #rejected by status quo I've yet to evolve a high tolerance for #pain I've #grown to love weed especially when it smokes slow & I was already instantly disagreeing with status quo to learn how to re-stain tables at a stripper show youtu.be/YvcPtJE-ZEw?...

#vss365 I can work thru #pain for the most part & have likely broken a toe this year it looks crooked as a pool shark in a wiggly ear but it's still here that funky toe nail makes that clear I think if u break a toe that toe nail should quit growin' so it won't be all weird naw u don't get that

#vss365 some #souls sleep easy with a clear conscience & they're righteous or delusional but easy sleep brings dreams otherwise it's a struggle & all ya get is nightmares fer yer trouble youtu.be/dokHsFb3-OI?...

#vss365 #RetroArtPrompt the enemy may very well have had #soul but we sent em to hell because they didn't have enough want-to to back it up lesser saw greater fell our #courage, an empty bowl hunger gone pell-mell this is what haunts you as blood fills yer cup youtu.be/HMcsDVYo0I8?...

#vss365 #RetroArtPrompt #WildWalkPrompt #emoetry Little Peter was #regaled with kindness by peers a jolly #soul with #courage beyond years but the old crowd had fears & witch #hazel behind the ears wet still if you will & it took Little Peter to keep em real youtu.be/uoWPMwLCbIM?...

#vss365 #RetroArtPrompt #WildWalkPrompt she sed my #hazel eyes looked like earth well lit & days they're more brown than green I tell lies for what they're worth full o shit till the #courage phase the green'd drown the brown until serene & old #souls materialize before birth from what eye seen

#vss365 puke in a hole & the wine gets sweeter juke a evil #soul with the snout of a skeeter cured in a garlic chive flower hand milled under scrutiny of a live plane, in a wood chip shower with Sweaty Feddaganoochie hopped up on spiny aloe that'll suit ye youtu.be/HYwWg4tiOCc?...

"Gustavo" is harvesting lemons in Fresno CA. They earn $45 per bin. "It takes an average worker around 3 hrs to fill a 900lb bin as we work carefully to avoid getting pricked by the many big thorns. In our 7-hour work day, we usually manage to fill two bins." #WeFeedYou

#vss365 went to see my therapist today to avoid an anxiety attack caught em at breakfast time bein' #shadowed by barkin' growlin' snarlin' dogs in a pack my therapist remained sublime & just kept eatin' breakfast that's a fact I took it as a sign to tighten up the slack & get what's mine

#vss365 #emoetry #peeved at the consequences of daylight darkness takes to the tree lines & fences becoming a #shadow till night darkness falls on the standard & the strange like the bible sez bout rain if you're lookin' for change start with yer own pain youtu.be/AmUt3258emk?...

#vss365 the #shadow isn't metaphorically sound like a simile to maintain meter & flow it remains in the background as a silly me from long ago youtu.be/t6341dug7iw?...

the moon is dumbfounding tonight youtu.be/PQ8F7qmRWGs?...

#vss365 #BornBattleReady she really thought she was a #harbinger of doom some line she bought so I scootched over to make room & let the #soothing start it led us both to discover a tender place in our heart & I couldn't help but love her so I write it in my art youtu.be/HT0006dFgDQ?...