sink me deep into foreign collisions. Craved the carbon of Her. I, assess the elements of my casket. Her silence Consent to my dissolve...

She was the mountain in a world of ash. Her hands trembled softly over the currents of my body, Shifting tides into tsunamis colliding...

Slow steeping hills Always running Away from the people beyond 96th St In the heat rising up from concrete tires grinding into lost souls...

Severed hands may not reach for freedom keys, As legs lost to tarnished trails have sunk my booted feet. The black body has extended,...

Somethin’ happened Last night to that boy down the block They say his flesh began to rot, Turnin’ dusk-deep Like twilight His melanin...

It is somewhat misleading to believe that you are not as deep as the sky Deep in yours eyes, I personify the chorus of an angel’s cry,...

Zanele hasn't slept Zanele hasn’t slept. She can’t think. Her brain is half chewed toast spit out with no butter. Block has consumed her,...

I dream in the accent of my mother I dream in the accent of my mother, and her mother Xhosa buoyant against the folding current crafting...

Tell me of our mother Epigenetics: The inheritance of generational trauma Tell me of our mother And of how we had once been her sisters...

Last night I took a trip Last night I took a trip We played Jazmine Sullivan and you become nothing more than a blimp On my mind and in...

I could show you what you will find I could show you what you will find When you remove yourself from the aligned And the confined it's...

I remember the day you called me I remember the day you called me My father’s child Told me that I was no different You said that I was...