Who Are You and Whom Do You Love?
The woman you were when you left them. The silhouette sorting through your garbage, in search of aluminum cans and […]
African American Poets, Poems, Tributes
African American Poets
African American Poets, Poems, Tributes
Ode to the Bedpan
Consider the arching hips, the buttocks squeezed, thrust upward and then pressed to that metal lip, almost sexually. Consider the
African American Poets, Poems, Tributes
Mucambo
There is one street-light in the twenty mile stretch violet kryptonite. We are walking three in a row wax idols as earth melts
African American Poets, Poems, Tributes
A Few Excuses
It’s not my fault I don’t know any. I can’t tell them apart either. I come from a very traditional
African American Poets, Poems, Tributes
They Win the Upper Hand
There exists, between the woman and the pads of her busy thumbs, a long running feud caused by her thumbs’
African American Poets, Audio, Poems, Tributes
Ars Poetica
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/OcasioPoetica.mp3″] They laughed when I asked for pancetta, those grocery store clerks. I don’t care. It’s better to be