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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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