{"id":156,"date":"2016-06-10T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/?p=156"},"modified":"2016-06-12T01:12:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T05:12:56","slug":"push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/2016\/06\/10\/push\/","title":{"rendered":"Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The past week has been filled with narratives that I am not sure how to share in words other than a poem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You are not who I expected you to be.<\/p>\n<p>Pulling back before releasing you<\/p>\n<p>are not who they expected you to be.<\/p>\n<p>whole homes stripped to<\/p>\n<p>foundation homes<\/p>\n<p>thought to have had<\/p>\n<p>foundation<\/p>\n<p>Homes no longer a home but toothpicks for you to pick grime out your teeth, consuming<\/p>\n<p>reminding us that we consume without asking<\/p>\n<p>And you came without asking<\/p>\n<p>You are proof that you act on your own, a<\/p>\n<p>vessel we are only guests on<\/p>\n<p>clipping phone lines like floss string and plucking bolts off tracks, flicking them to destination<\/p>\n<p>Concrete walls like Lego pieces, your job to disassemble.<\/p>\n<p>You are reclaimation of space and decolonization in its purest state.<\/p>\n<p>You are time-machine, begging.<\/p>\n<p>and you push. you push<\/p>\n<p>cousins into alcoholism push yourself onto shores familiar with your frequent kisses but not your abuse and you push.<\/p>\n<p>Only now must we realize that you push.<\/p>\n<p>You are not who I expected you to be,<\/p>\n<p>Storm without calm<\/p>\n<p>always<\/p>\n<p>pushing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-158\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-30-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-30-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-30-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-30.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The inundation zone in Minamisanriku, a part of the T\u014dhoku region in Japan severely hit by the tsunami on March 11, 2011<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-176\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-38-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-38-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-38-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-38.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A radiation level posting in Fukushima-shi<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-177\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-39-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-39-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-39-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/meltdownsandwaves\/files\/2016\/06\/image-39.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An abandoned building with earthquake damage in Tomioka, a city evacuated due to high radiation levels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past week has been filled with narratives that I am not sure how to share in words other than a poem. &nbsp; You are not who I expected you to be. 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