KSH – Medium

Published in ILLUMINATION

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Zora’s Blues

An Acrostic in the key of “E.” — Zora, your life, a shattered window in Winter, once disdained — forgotten. Ordered in its disorderliness — framed, elegantly arraigned thick vines Realized — as ordained. your life, an unwitting Accomplice — your mother’s birth the first inca- Ntation, the inevitable downfall of Empires, your emergence into the world from her womb — Alchemic screams…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Published in The Bazaar of the Bizarre

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Pieces of Me

Best served hot. — I am of the belief that everyone I meet is a teacher in a momentary meeting you’ve left a piece of yourself with me after a brief interaction we are kindred in a longing to be alone in passing histories ignite genomes inextricably linked to hatred’s past walk away from…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Published in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

·2 days ago

Remember Your Greatness

We were created to be uniquely different. — I almost forgot what it is to appreciate the person I am. The world gets so busy and so consumed with doing “something” that we almost become its next meal. Isn’t that funny? We dodge life’s pitfalls only to be swallowed whole by the trying. I remember now. I remember…

Impermanence

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Impermanence

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Published in The Bazaar of the Bizarre

·Mar 17

Room in the Distance

A memoir — the past| clear as a room in the distance sun-cast in rose crepe and sepia low lights. its edges| the sweetest parts| obscured by some phantasmic obstruction nearest my view. time| scales before me like a clean shadow box full of memories crisp in laughter| wilted in tear soaked cheeks|…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Published in Everything Shortform

·Mar 1

A new friend greets me every day on my bottom stair.

I rattled off myriad names, for days, attempting to christen this curious Carolina Anole before, Igon, dropped from my lips. They turned…

Nature

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A new friend greets me every day on my bottom stair.

Nature

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Feb 13

Heavenly Birthdays are for Angels

Honoring my grandmother on the 10th Anniversary of her passing. — Ten years ago today, I lost the one person in this world who was most like me, who understood the shy, quiet, silly, secretly smart girl whose moods ranged from happily silent to loud and opinionated about everything. I believe she lived her life, similarly, so that unbeknownst to her…

Ancestry

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Ancestry

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Published in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

·Feb 13

Conversation with a Ghost

A visitation incomplete of tea. — “So this what you wanna be?” “Ms. Vell? That you?” … Uh…where’s my momma? “So this what you wanna be?” I knew what she meant, she meant the same thing that’s been weighing on my heart, heavy like Jesus’ stone that got rolled away. “What do you want me to…

Short Form

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Short Form

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Published in ILLUMINATION

·Jan 21

Kinfolk

Day 21 of Tupelo Press’ 30/30 poetry challenge —

Poetry

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Poetry

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Published in Writers and Editors of Color Magazine

·Jan 20

A Monumental Disappointment

My response to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./Coretta Scott King’s new sculpture in Boston. — As an artist, I am pretty open, more open than most. I tend to see the world abstractly, and in that sense, this piece is on the fringes, and that is respectable. But this image disturbs me for a number of reasons that I cannot ignore. As a Black woman…

Writing

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Writing

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Jan 15

Tupelo Press 30/30 Poetry Challenge

I’m halfway through!! — Life can make you smile and cry, it’s full of challenges to push us to what we think are our limits. To find out, that we are capable of more than what we could imagine! I’ve found another challenge one designed to really exercise my poetic muscles, stretch my imagination…

Poetry

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Poetry

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