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If only on the outside I am fat so I cannot accept that I am worthy I know deep down my bulging belly labels me obese and I see my heavier…
Dear white people… I’m not here to fight, I’m not here to bargain, I’m not here to scream. You’re here to listen. The place you call home,…
So this dumbass asked me the other day “Why does Black History Month always have to be about Death and Rosa Parks and Malcolm X and MLK?…
My mother names me She marries the lion and moves a degree less north. The heavens tempt her with smorgasbords of grey – battleship, cloud,…
George Goddard FishingThere is alwaysthis sandthis seathis windcracked, saltslapped rock And small boys and old men fishing here:their…
for Charles Cadet, cantor, 1924-2021Antiphon: “Nevertheless I am continually with Thee: Thou hast holden me by my right hand.” – Psalm…
March 11, 2020 the first cloth mask rolls from my mother's industrial fingers, white strings flapping surrender it is my birthday the day…
i i put you in my left front pocket; you wore a hole through to my skin and left burn marks all over the landscape of my thighs ii i wrote…
Dear one, when I recall how hot an ting this August did and den wid all de other nameless ting it had in all this covid You be most welcome…
Photo Copyright © 2020 by John Robert Lee—socially distanced. for Ann-Margaret Lim “To the saints who are in Ephesus.” Ephesians 1:1…
Keep watch over her. She will sculpt sandcastles on the shores of her mind And give way for the sun to solidify them. She will expect the…
In aisle 5 (or was it 6?), this lithe chick—sneakers, leggings, thighs, thick bouncing braids—busts a funky hip-hop move while bending low…
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