Never felt the breeze splinter bare
Like I did in the moment that
I first saw you.
Rocking across oxygen, your
Smile deep, shy, bursting
To escape the hell you’d
Already been through.
Your eyes–sad and happy and
Hopeful–melting my mind,
Giving me hope too.
But, it was the soft graze of your hand
Across mine that made me
Know that loving you is
The only thing I ever wanted to
Do.
♡Anastasia Z. Cunningham
06-04-2020
Lovely flash dancing brothers, sleek skin
& wavy hair, grace that white stage
with leaps, splits, twists, coat tails
streaming, torsos coasting together, then
apart on that slick surface, coming up
from splits as if pulled by a string,
what magic you wove
with sinew & strength
in the madhouse of a country
afire with noose & torch
& frost-ridden faces lined
by midnight shadows.
~Brothers Fayard & Harold, 1914-2006 & 1921-2000, respectively, who became well-known during the Harlem Renaissance for their unique style of dancing, known as “flash dancing”
I have been shot several times
in dreams, but never by anyone
with skin darker than mine:
by a white man wearing a uniform
with a pistol, in a basement
interrogation room;
by a white man in a baseball cap
with a shotgun, in the front seat
of my car at a stop sign;
by a white man in tee shirt and jeans
with a rifle in my back yard,
where I had fled
when the shooting started.
Lily-white scars dot my mother’s body,
the largest being a crescent that cups her right knee
it’s thick, ruffled, and shiny with scar tissue
if I could pluck the scars from her body,
as easily as pulling feathers from sand,
I’d build her wings from her past hurts
so she could fly
somewhere devoid of the forces that
would hurt her again
JOBS
jobs display status
jobs were started in the current environment
jobs conform to the Base Definitions.
The following options shall be supported:
−Provide more information about each job. This information shall include the job number, group, state, and the command that formed the job.
−Display the group leaders of the selected jobs.
By default display the status of all stopped jobs, running background jobs and all jobs whose status has changed and have not been reported.
the status information for all jobs shall be displayed.
environment shall affect the execution of jobs
Provide value for internationalization
Internationalization variables determine the values of locale categories
Determine the locale that should be used.
Determine the location.
The character identifies the job that would become the default if the current default job were to exit. At most one job can be identified.
If the job was terminated, it shall be visibly distinct.
different implementations have different strategies for defining the job.
The jobs does not work as expected
For this reason, jobs is generally implemented as a regular historical practice of control.
The job control features provided are based on standard characteristics
differences exist Despite widespread degree of uniformity with the rest of the features, regardless of the condition of job.
When the user has invoked control, jobs can still be used to examine the background. Similarly, kill can then be used.
The output for terminated jobs is left unspecified to accommodate various historical systems.
Most users should be able to understand.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
*found poem (erasure) from Linux manual pages
global protesters,
just action, Black Lives Matter,
covid & real news.
Grief walks with us this
day/season/year, often one
step ahead/behind.
I dial it, but some numbers sink
below memory like
stacks of papers and Post-its that shift
into ridges.
Lost digits sprout like weeds on my desk.
Area codes root loose.
Bloomed in salt rain, one rose vines up thin
column,
opens ten petals against grief-gray sky.
The Lord calls us to bear witness,
so he sent a photographer –
outcast by most, savior to all sidewalk fools.
Re-imagine the fishers of men
casting their nets – just webs by another name.
Squint of the eyes
the outside corners pinched
a treasure in darkness
my duty to reflect
Behind these masks
dominating faces
it’s the surest sign
of a smile to be found
