Poetry

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west harlem, july 2017

“black is everywhere but here it’s not a matter as much as it is a holy question”

“there’s a word for brown mothers and what they think is best: blanqueamiento”

“where the girls with dead horses meet / to carefully unfold each creased page”

The holiday season is here, the family season is here. This time of year can be joyful, but …

“legs wrapped like branches, / toes like roots as old as time”

“the word for breakup sex is salt”

When books grow old / they turn to wood / and grow mushrooms / along the spines.

Fire’s flicker by ancient instinct has always seemed / a morsel of some good thing, some yellow promise / like a notebook patterned in sunflowers

“Taught us to levitate for a reasonable fee Fed us for a reasonable fee Gave us lung disease for a reasonable fee”