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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,…
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…
Just when we were readying ourselves to fly Calamity coveted corner and crowd A world wind flu blown across borders Battling a curse of…
It is easier to write a poem than to grieve, much easier to Google words to rhyme with grief, easier to create a clever line of toe-curling…
Commuh families… yeah. Kam in. I ain’t pun dem gossip scenes, but u gaw know. Scatta-Out izza man whoz wait till need slow roast he head…
A bunch of surfer dudes, sun-bleached blonde and sun-browned, inch their way across the rocky shore, Soup Bowl bound, tentative as…
When he comes He waits patiently by the door. He knocks softly. Gently. He asks, May I come in? Are you at home? Is now a good time? He…
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