Em Jacoby

I woke up to the noise of a fist pounding on doors, shouts, and faint screeching of smoke detectors in the apartment upstairs. Alone in my studio apartment, I imagined my petite gas range exploding. I grabbed my bag and flip phone, pulled fleece-lined pants over my pajamas, took my winter coat, and slipped out the door. As I ran to the stairwell, I pounded on neighbours’ doors, grateful for the noise that had woken me.

Image credit: Jamie Neufeld, “Carceral Mindset,” September 5, 2020, Watercolour, 6 x 8 inches. I’ve paused to do some soul searching. I confess that I may have slipped back into my old colonial mindset and succumbed to the temptation to exploit my offenders to advance the interests of the State. The audio is a transcript of the written piece recorded by Calvin Neufeld for Geez Out Loud.

Image Credit: A bumblebee feasts in East Village, Detroit, Michigan, August 2004, schizoform CC. Where is your table? Who is sitting around it? What are you hungering for? The audio is a transcript of the written piece recorded by Lydia Wylie-Kellermann and Kateri Boucher for Geez Out Loud. As I begin to imagine words on this page, my eyes wander around this well trodden landscape. To my right, native strawberry plants poke through the soil under the hammock.