you think you are the ocean and you offer me a raft of blackness or womanness fatness or queerness dis-ability or my migrant nature or something other other other you […]
Month: July 2017
the scale of epiphany
all of my adult life i’ve navigated depression. it doesn’t show up in obvious ways. but i know when it’s running the ship. i lose touch with the miracle, the […]
someday soon I will become irrelevant
someday soon i will become irrelevant i will say something out of line or outdated you will learn of my contradictions and cancel my existence maybe someone will say but […]
in the dark i see fireflies
in the dark i see fireflies they are like we are sparks sometimes shining rarely in rhythm rarely together but beautiful in the dark i see longing yawning open, wet […]
black band on flesh
last summer i started wearing a black cloth band around my arm as a sign of continuous black grief and resistance. over the year i felt the commitment spread through […]