“Wash Away What Was”
I am the dancing flame at the altar. Wore green to the ocean, walked right in and rinsed…
“Time Peace”
I’ve decided that after everything I’ve been through, the least I could do is give myself time…
“We Do Language”
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” — Toni Morrison, in her acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature; the first African American woman to receive the award.
“Die to Fly”
A poem for Toyin. A poem for Black girls gone too soon. A poem inspired by Noname’s “Song 33.”