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Rose Vines

@rosevines.com

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I write about human rights and human rites.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 27/02/2025

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 03/02/2025

A poem for the times.

The Time of the Wasps

Now is not the time for your usual life.
Within our hive
the wasps have already launched
their swift assault,
overwhelming our guards,
killing the workers,
turning their avid eyes
on our pooled, collective honey.

They come for our eggs, too.

We have expected the assault—
they are wasps, after all—
but not the shape of that assault,
and that could well be
our undoing
if we pretend that
now is the time for our usual life.

Now is the time to shower love
on those who wield the pen;
the poets, the comics,
the resolute reporters,
yes,
but also on those who build palisades and pitfalls from
statutes and precedents,
who slow the charge
of the lawless now empowered.

Now is not the time for your usual life.
Use normality as a ruse, silence as a shield,
but not as a path.
Hold close your joy and love and frolicsomeness—
the you that longs for your usual life—
while in safe places you share rumblings and connections
and lay smart plans
to make a swarming cacophony in unsafe spaces.

Now is the time of the wasps
who bring their billions to crush our millions.
But they are few.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 10

Cover of The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 9

Cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 04/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 8

The cover of Evening in the Palace of Reason - Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Reason.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 7

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 30/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 6

Book cover of Radclyffe Hall’s The Unlit Lamp

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 29/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 5

The cover of ROOM by Emma Donoghue. White cover with ROOM spelt in colourful capitals as if a child’s painting.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 28/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 4

Book cover of Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Carches You and You Fall Down. Cream cover with small photo inset of a Hmong child in traditional costume.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 27/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 3

Symphony for the City of the Dead book cover. Sub-titles is "Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad". By M.T. Anderson. A man in coat and cap walks among ice blue, bombed out buildings. A flight of warplanes flies overhead through a blood-red sky.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 26/11/2024

View over water lit red by sunset through the smoke of a distant large fire. Rocky outcrops in the front, with one that looks somewhat like a lion.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 2

Book cover of My Place by Sally Morgan, depicting a life journey in dot arts.

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Rose Vines @rosevines.com · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 1

Angus the Tartan Partan - The Story of a Crab, book cover.

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