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When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I ...

Lie back daughter, let your head be tipped back in the cup of my hand. Gently, and I will hold you. Spread your arms wide, lie out on the st...

Thankful To be hammered thin Seemingly brittle But strong enough To bridge the gaps Between strengths Shading a space For rest

Let me tell you about my marvelous god, how he hides in the hexagons of the bees, how the drought that wrings its leather hands above the wo...

            and remote, and useful, if only to itself. Take the fly, angel of the ordinary house, laying its bright eggs on the trash, press...

Childhood remembrances are always a drag If you're Black You always remember things like living in Woodlawn With no inside toilet And if...

conjunction 1. used to introduce something contrasting with what has already been mentioned 2. used to indicate the impossibility of anythin...

Help me still the vertigo of my thoughts Help me look up  reset my altimeter adjust my attitude indicator  that I may know rather than panic...

 The Rev. Bob LaVallee says there are only 5 prayers, which are also types of religious experiences: Wow Thanks I'm sorry Help me Help s...

 Sunshine or a scarf and a cat in my lap Just enough chocolate Time to work Time to think Voices from people of color who can forgive Wise w...

 

what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made i...

 I believe 3 things are needed to sail through this to that, as Lucille Clifton wishes for us. 1) That we cultivate bold, just goals of equi...

                                                            (at St. Mary's) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our unders...

  We, bearers of the dream, affirm that a new vision of hope is emerging. We pledge to work for that community in which justice will be acti...

  (All from The Book of Delights) 4:20 "Weirdly Untitled"  8:55 "The High Five from Strangers, Etc." 13:20 "The Mar...

  11:30 "To the Mistake" (Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude) 15:30 "That's Some Bambi Shit" (The Book of Delights) 16:5...

  Doing what, I don’t know, being alive. The green of her is a scum on the surface, she would like to look at herself. Should I have a memor...

after Mickalene Thomas A sip of liquor from a creek. Saturday syndicated Good Times, bare legs, colors draped like an afterthought. We br...

At the risk of going a bit down the road of making a colorblind racist argument, I'm thinking more and more about how the crux of the on...