i am not a mama i was never a mama (i was with child i was a brief and clueless mother) i am a potential mama a realm of all […]
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Tag: poetry
the children (solstice poem)
the children run up the stairs and i realize how old i have become one choice at a time in the places i come together and where i am forever […]
I know enough
I know enough About the night sky To sometimes say There is Cassiopeia There are the Pleiades There is Orion’s long sword So I am home Only As I get […]
everywhere so full (for Jake Brewer, rip)
everywhere was so full of people remembering what they’d been told to forget dying with regrets too soon or too late but never on time you were a man unafraid […]
when are we / #whoisburningblackchurches
If 7 white churches had burned down in 14 days, after 9 white people were killed by a person of any other race in a house of worship, can you […]
an aubade from aya (6/30)
write an aubade (a song from a door or window to a sleeping woman, a morning love song). … the land is quiet between us for months we face this […]
e— reads aya dickinson on the new world
napowrimo prompt 5: rewrite a poem from emily dickinson with your own spacing and punctuation. i did this, as well as adding some interjections from queen aya, who claims not […]
aya and e— speak of emotion (4/30)
day 4 prompt: I challenge you to write a “loveless” love poem. Don’t use the word love! And avoid the flowers and rainbows. … aya and e— speak of emotion […]
e— recalls creating (3/30)
day 3 prompt: write a fourteener. fourteeners can be have any number of lines, but each line should have fourteen syllables … e— journal entry 3/26/R1259 we are building a […]
resting in poetry, for maya angelou
I was thinking how people I hold as eternal keep dying – I don’t know I believe this till they pass – when the news came: you so constantly here […]