ante meridiem
3:41am i’m going to cherish and regret this experience once i wake up. you’re completely different in person. no. incorrect. on skype. we skyped. we sat and had a conversation, looked at each other’s “faces” through this app called skype as i cursed my internet connection. you looked different. you sounded different. you laughed a...
MOTHER
Mother, your love baked a shell around me until I was ready to crack it and rise from the Earth
to the students who live in two worlds
to you first-generation, first-born, first in the family, low-income students out there i feel you.
Musical Hearts vs. Lion Souls
Sometimes it is With instead of Vs. I met another man With a lion soul This is how I know– How I know the difference I am thinking of myself when I say: “Musical heart”
Dear Black Girl
I know you’ve spent a large portion of your life hearing people tell you to change, or telling that you changed too much and now you need to change differently to fit into that size into that frame in which they want to place you
PRIDE
I hold a collection of stones in my hands. I did not collect them myself, but somehow they got slipped into my pocket. They are not all the same. Some are larger than others, Different shades and colors. Some are rough and hard, Some are smooth, cold. Each of the stones have words on...
And Broken Were The Bones
And broken were the bones that once held him together. Pretty brown boy found love over the summer. Met her one wild night and dove in head first down Alice’s rabbit hole. Pretty brown boy falls for a dime piece with curves like a coke bottle. And broken were the bones. He snuck her...
