Burial Clothes – Scalawag
Burial Clothes. Poem. Presented as part of Cumulative Realities, edited by Aurielle Marie. National Poetry Month, 2025.| Scalawag
Aint Sh*t changed... so let's stop pretending that what is happening has not always been Read more via Scalawag: Ain't Sh*t Changed.| Scalawag
The workshop intentionally centered both the work of Louisville’s local African American artists and the city’s historically Black West End neighborhoods. Read more via Scalawag: The Louisville Art Workshop was never just about art. It stood for community..| Scalawag
UNTIL TODAY1 All my poetry has been di- Agnostic: a [swamp of self-Deception] best described As [beautiful and ugly], withal IHave never written the word "Dys-Phoria," have not trekked its pinkPink [wound] about this [land-Scape of myself]. My [mind], a black Gash when called "[man]." A tradition, It is: my grandmother, committedTo [suicide], took her […] Read more via Scalawag: Until Today.| Scalawag
May 2024 We hot-wire our bodies, & tell the genocide it hasn't won. By god, it is wont to do, but by god, it won't! We twist ourselves into crazyeyed shapes of refusal. In these times, dance is a decision to move beyond survival. Dance arms the body to suffer the art of witness. Once, […] Read more via Scalawag: UPON LEARNING THAT PAPI JUICE JOINED THE PALESTINE ACADEMIC & CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL.| Scalawag
the scariest part, is always, in the beginningwhen we meet. & I'm six,which means, I'm four, and a boyslides down, our screen door, maskeda chin so sharp, it's familialwhy wouldn't I take it, as a threat, when he's hidingas Scream– a movie from whichin the beginning, the Black girl dies, publicly& it becomes, the sole […] Read more via Scalawag: All the ghosts got loose again.| Scalawag
Burial Clothes. Poem. Presented as part of Cumulative Realities, edited by Aurielle Marie. National Poetry Month, 2025.| Scalawag
Cumulative Realities: Queer Poems for the Liberated Future is a collection of poetry curated by Aurielle Marie. National Poetry Month 2025.| Scalawag
