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 […]
Tag: poems
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 […]
fog clearing moon
fog cast before the moon soft fingers that can’t touch her face this river of our righteous tears earth women bear this weight fog on a full fat moon fragments […]
Pandowrimo
for a few years, i have participated in a national poetry writing practice (#napowrimo) in april. this year, april fell in the midst of a global pandemic that has left […]
harriet is a north star
13 trips 70 people no lost passengers my people are free 19 trips 300 people no lost passengers my people are free i can’t stop thinking about Harriet Tubman! i […]
one week of poems on love and terror
i was supposed to be working on a novel this month but it will keep. instead i have written thousands of other kinds of words – blog words, journal words, […]
napowrimo poem 16: lies
write a ten-line poem in which each line is a lie. i am stronger than the oceans in this moment i need for nothing i am a clear day to […]