Man-Low

a Black idiom with universal, all-o’-y’all, application

Impacted by posture & circumstance

While wholly operating from the ego.

Man-low in a sentence:

Unable & unwilling to bury his mother,
he is feeling & behaving really man-low.

Credit

Author

Rodney Terich Leonard

Rodney Terich Leonard is the author of Another Land of My Body (Four Way Books, 2024) and Sweetgum & Lightning (Four Way Books, 2021). A Callaloo poetry fellow, he received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University.

Date Published

01/01/2024