thirteen ways of looking at the towers: a 9/11 poem ten years later (audio only)
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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 ::
2023
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
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?)
eenie meenie minie moe
catch a voter by her toe
if she hollers then you know
got yourself a real jane crow
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2020