Eyes as dark as coffee beans, voice as sweet as sugar cane, skin as smooth as charcoal smeared along the canvas of my iris. She appears bold and strong, but bears the weight of her wig, which is as light as cotton, but as heavy as colonialism. She is a beautiful panther, butContinue reading “Her Mirror Reflects”
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The Escape from Loss
Have you heard the Atlantic cry to the Mediterranean? Have you heard the ancestors weep and gnash teeth? Years afore, in the Atlantic core bodies passed down the Middle Passage. The undercurrent had cast seaweed nets on their corpses, and mourned the loss. Only the moss’s prayers bubbled up in deep blue spirituals,Continue reading “The Escape from Loss”
My Testament
If I should die before my time, Do not moan this travesty as “short-lived.” If these words should find you and touch you Like Elisha’s anointing, embrace my spirit. Ink your pen with our tears; let its salt Overwrite the eclipsed pages of my diary. Continue my words, this writing curse. Consecrate the dirt ofContinue reading “My Testament”
A Day in my Mother’s House
The sun creeps in through my red curtains dying my room pink. A womb. The indigo carpet soaks the sunlight warming my room. Incubator. Despite the shade of the fern out front and thickness of the drapes. Heat leaks in. I awake to the sound of a dove’s coo, a dog’s howl, a cockerel’sContinue reading “A Day in my Mother’s House”
Lake Venus
They say that Lake Venus is the most beautiful in all the land. In summer, it provides the beaming sun with a surface to waltz upon. As the sun changes its axis and each sunbeam gently flows to the music of the breeze through the trees, the dormant fairies wake and begin to dance toContinue reading “Lake Venus”
Samuel Rubadiri 