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Miscommunication
The meals at my house
never sing a tune of
steamed asparagus over
a brew of hot, hot
vegetable juice filled
with raw potato..
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Detroit, 1969
Papa taught me
if anything happened
close my eyes count to ten
say a little prayer
but my knees lock and burn
one.
hallowe..
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Dear Shelby,
Remember me?Remember when you were two
and I was three?Remember all the days spent in
your family’s garage?Remember us playing..
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One eye on the ball,
he dribbles it to the west side of the court
tries to pass it off to Malcolm but drops it,
ball bounces to the fence,
hits ..
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He wants to taste the river,
wants to ride the storm
and I tell him he won’t get anywhere
thinking the way that he does.He&rsqu..
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Woven from mother’s hands
tucked beneath her breastsbreath of Aphrodite;soul of Athenastreaming through her lips.
Mother sports a solid eye
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"After she moves out, one tears up grass blades
to watch which way the wind blows." -Dobby Gibson, The World as See..
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The world is smaller from in here;
the world is darker and cloudier
whichever way I turn.
I don’t fit
and the air is running thin.The very s..
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To give away a dog
without a goodbye
is to cry into your pillow
all through the night and no one hears you.To know that she touched your soul
is t..
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Blue painted across the sky
reflected through the
skylines and shimmer of
the underbellies of planes,we sit underneath it all.
I mark a spot on t..
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