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Emily Dickinson, What Did You Feel?-
When you languidly grazed hands with a Woman,
had you seen your reflection in Her irises?
Had you wished you could drown in that yearning black void? -
A Newborn Sentience?
Let Her come out of the womb, varnished,
moved so miraculously by phantoms and auras.
Oral embodiments of asking and wonderment.
Ingesting the simplest forms, phonetic emotions. -
Let Me Search
- let me search
- spread across the earth like a wave of miraculous light
- let me search
- where movement makes undeniable sense
- where psychedelic circles vibrate l
- let me search
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Only a Little Out of Twelve Pages
- I Felt no obligation to be apologetic or to hate myself
- I welcomed all of the Love of the world into myself, and it was Beautiful
- mystic and Indomitable.
- (now, today, I am miserable ye
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New Sweet Griefs
Nasturtium (crystalized in spring frost,
even after the sun has wiped the teary sky)
who is unaccompanied and stationery. -
When In Bloom
The dogwood blooms later
this year and marks the tardy rebirth
of the earth, our home, beautifying
after a dreadful winter purge.
Loves
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after the fifth day of november
note: partially inspired by Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"
and for my mom
i want you to sit and stare at the glistening horizon.
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The Next Step
What do I do,
as a black woman,
when they get control?
when the consequences
don't matter anymore?
when I watch my people
get bullied,
get beat,
get murdered,
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11/9/24
When best friends of old
become polite passersby
still give them a smile and let your heart be full
for theirs are broken too
and need to be reminded to mend.
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