you are an us

dear family,

i want us to be formidable.
to have dinner at a long table on the lawn, under the stars, with the river music flowing around our farm, the yiguirros and chicharras.

in response to being violently expelled from my own house, for a fifth time, finding somewhere to live, with friends, 25 times in four years, this is my love letter.

i, jaleh ruhe, share MY powerlessness with every ONE.
because i ask, and know, and question all things #allmen
because i hashtag each proper word with it's most precise meaning in my brain for all times.
because i don't see problems, i see opportunities.

and i draw the circles in time based on the planets in our solar system.
you see mars, i see a brother.
i see saturn, jupiter and uranus.
úranis.
planet of drastic switcheroos and plot twists. planet of the future and of the new era.
it's been in the sign of aries.
for eight years in the sign
of war and strategy.
of selfies.
and now it comes into taurus
where it collects all the ugly wreckage and turns it into a lovely barn, a farm, a refuge.