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\nIf home is a memory
\nIf home is a dream
\nIf home is a body<\/p>\n

If home is a body of water<\/p>\n

Reclaiming one’s relationship to water
\nfrom a fear of drowning<\/p>\n

Remembering
\nthere’s ease in being like water<\/p>\n

Returning to one’s water body
\nbeing fluid + sensual + flexible<\/p>\n

Caretaking, but also
\ntaking no shit.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

Here,<\/p>\n

I present<\/p>\n

a memory in motion
\na dream danced on the page
\na body remembering how to swim\n<\/p><\/div>\n

 
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If home is a memory If home is a dream If home is a body If home is a body of water Reclaiming one’s relationship to water from a fear of drowning Remembering there’s ease in being like water Returning to one’s water body being fluid + sensual + flexible Caretaking, but also taking no … Continue reading Aisha “Ebbie” Russell<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/414\/revisions\/868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}