Medusa’s Defense
What was my sin? That my father, Phoebe, never taught me to swim? That’s my alibi, our reason, and I […]
African American Poets, Poems, Tributes
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African American Poets, Poems, Tributes
The Lord God Bird
Sixty-two years since the last sighting, ornithologists say they’ve spotted one somewhere along the lip of the White River, its
African American Poets, Poems, Tributes
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
Awards, Poems, Pushcart Prize, Sonnets, Tributes
Motown Crown
The Temps, all swerve and pivot, conjured schemes that had us skipping school, made us forget how mamas schooled us
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