song in the backyard: a golden shovel for Rihanna (audio only)
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will poetry change the world? no one asks
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healers. no question that rabbis, priests, &
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spiritual thickets. we don’t tell cooks to put
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black love
my love is black though my love is not black ::
think the darkness cradling the milky way ::
imagine quick light flowing down the back
of my throat, glowing—i swallow the day ::
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sonnet for the long second act
your body is still a miracle thirst
quenched with water across dry tongue and lips
or cocoa butter ashy legs immersed
till shine seen sheen the mind too cups and dips
from its favorite rivers figures and facts
slant stories of orbiting protests or
protons around daughters or suns :: it backs
2020