my mother loves me my mother shows me i am meant to be loved whole my mother loves the wild world through my heart others call on her gift and […]
black boys
black boys should be allowed to lose their minds to make everyone uncomfortable carving out a place to stand alive in spite of what happened to their mothers […]
i’m trying
i’m trying to stay here trying to keep one root in the dirt spread wide listening for an echo of the ones i loved i’m trying to stay here on […]
at the door
don’t shoot there is a black boy at the door looking for his siblings don’t shoot there is a young black man ringing the doorbell don’t shoot there […]
cloud
soft pulled in to the earth by the weight full lost in the pale thick with darkness catching sunlight crushing, all around every texture on earth will be found here […]
be a miracle
you were always so good at being a miracle astounding in your generosity doubtless you belonged to god born to hay, willing to wander source secrecy shrouded in starlight with […]
attention
put your attention on suffering – which is constant and everywhere – and it is all you will see. joy will come, and laughter, but you will find it brief, possibly a distraction. put […]
the antidote to authoritarianism is you
(last week i was blessed to offer some thoughts to my spiritual community, sharing in case they can support others) i saw the topic Malkia selected today: the antidote to […]
a self-loving black woman
when a black woman says i love you what she means is i have placed you in the palm of my prayers the stone of your birth sits on my […]
make my name
My field value: make my name a cracked seed surrendering to wet soil in a square of sun such tiny hope a child could sing me to life make my name a thread of light pulsing between two whitebark pine
