Ars Poetica
Copyright © 2023 by Nabila Lovelace. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on January 16, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.
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Sojourned.
I did not run away
I walked away by daylight
—Sojourner Truth
2024
By Inch-Meal a Disease
Maggot & Mosquito mother infectious
encounters. Call home to the fen. Flooding
makes a marsh and unhouses the land.
I picture skin, inch by inch conversion
to new flesh. Without medicine i’ve seen the body
be made a speedy disposal. Dejected ground.
Profitable & prosper both contain pro.
2020
The S in “I Loves You, Porgy”
makes me think plurality. Maybe I can love you
with many selves. Or. I love all the Porgys.
Even as a colloquialism: a queering of
love as singular. English is a strange
language because I loves
and He loves are not
both grammarly. I loves you,
2018