"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time." – James A. Baldwin
i avoid your embrace for fear of immolation but today decided to die to feel the flesh melt from my bones we are grown black boys in white socks dragging feet across carpet we hide prophet smiles because we know the same secret we know that when finger meets flesh we … Continue reading Beautiful Suicide
iTongue the words with my whole mouth closed. they won't cum neither will i because i can't say the necessary incantation to banish demons i did not summon my mouth craves … Continue reading The Bone Collector
moonlight makes me difficult to love i am all day sun father birthed not mother my first words were his not mine he named me a broken mirror later i learned he used mama-shards to carve rivers from infant wrist … Continue reading Moonlight on Broken Boughs
I. ||rememory|| we were star-crossed lovers in a galaxy with no moons—little stars who burned brightly in separate corners of the black. fate placed us in a cedar room with low lights and graffiti of vandals. miscreant etchings proclaiming love of forbidden things were spread across the walls like hieroglyphs of the fallen. and we … Continue reading The Book of Melvin
Victor was a demon in disguise who came through the gates singing a gospel chorus of loveshame when my city fell to power. We were a people of one. I met him in a doorway, seated on a throne of shadows, musing. Because his tune was my native tongue, we wrapped ourselves around it and … Continue reading Trojan
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time." - James A. Baldwin
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time." - James A. Baldwin
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