A bitter taste
an after taste
He wants me to swallow
He holds my mouth open with Popsicle sticks
Over and over he examines it
Tag Archives: womanism
Taboo Brown and Blue
Genetics dictate we are a 50/50 split of our parents, and researchers have identified various cycles that continue from one generation to the next. But how similar are we really to our parents and how do we become our own person–and what loop will we become in the chain of familial tradition?
Before I paved still air
to my place of bread
I was unpleasant
unpleasantly duressed by lack
of water
I could wash neither body
nor favorite dress
nor feed my yielding inedible
plant, nor swallow it
240 minutes waterless
Fig Trees
Fig Trees
By Margery Hannah
I want to be the red dot beaming
on canvas bleached
The Son I am to ears
bright of faces without teeth
The Tupac of despair, the Pryor
of fears laughing
at tears dried by Martin’s dream