

How to: Hide the Bodies
Burning flesh, crying babies, dead fathers, and missing sisters. Videotapes, and videophones, and media outlets, and and gun laws, and...

In the Poplar Trees
I’ve seamed the flesh of my daughter with ancestors’ cotton. Through her will be the rebirth of grandmother. And of her mother,...

Bleak Love
In times of joy I look for her face in the crowd yet I see only bleak visions of woman surrounded by a world of unwanted infatuation and...

Seasonal Thoughts
I remember meeting you in the fall. Time seemed to pass a little slower when we’d hold hands And when we’d talk it’d be hard to stop or...

Inhabitance
The prickly goosebumps tethered to the surface of my skin foreshadowed misery long before we could. And now death seemed to be the only...

And if I Could Swim like a Fish
I don't think I want to be like my parents anymore. I mean, I’ve went through my entire life just sort of mocking their existence,...

Sky Woman
There was a Black woman in the sky. I found her tumbling across the horizon, soul split into two dimensions, head first into the sun. The...