Lit Review – Page 75

messy girl

I’m a messy girl in a messy room. To be fair, I live in a very messy country. Place. I don’t like to say country. Gives this place too much credit. This place could change, and become a country. A nation of nations to redeem the land and the people. Just like I could cleanContinue reading “messy girl”

The Human Zoos of Modernity

Greetings! Following the writing of Dionne Brand in The Blue Clerk, I recently wrote a piece about the human zoos of modernity for the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice (where I’m an articles editor). Click the link here to read Part I. Parts II and III will be coming out later this week.

here come the coyote

here come the coyotedown the mountainsidehere come the coyotesee them stridehere come the coyote down the little hillhere come the coyotesee how they chillsee how they play in the past or todaymirrors of our future pastcoyote is really a gascoyote is really a screamawoooioooiooiooooooosee what i mean?

short shanty

i started taking no thing for grantedgee how my life has loosened up!perhaps my first view was slantedyr wiser when yr not a pup!

first try tang poem in honor of june jordan

tree can mulch bird swingcoyote bottle seat word wingcar kick squack sky snatchlighter fluid good-bye catch

sunset blvd east

i wanna be adoredby multiple niggasat the same timenext question.feeling alivenever crossed my mindnow that you askonly two more stopsthree more flightsfive more mouths to feed and then BEDthe stupid yellow string isn’t workingthe stupid yellow string isn’t working hm hmm. hmhm hm uh uhspider bite tree apple sauce flee8 pm already god damn godContinue reading “sunset blvd east”

canstand

can’t stand manufacture of hand make with the hand maid so go some place new to feel real a gain can stand make model of you in youth can stand to make tippie toes

dialogue / communiqué

spirit is inherently dialectical she says “somewhat detectable, no?” “spirit is protectable, yes” “spirit is protectable.” everything messed up and beautiful yeah everything messed up and beautiful, yeah might ain’t right nuh uh might ain’t right no sir might ain’t right no how, she my great great great great great great great grandmama my greatContinue reading “dialogue / communiqué”

this is the story

this is the story this is the story you hear on the nightly news and say, “what a shame, i knew her” such promise! such promises doled out between the water bearers beginning to understand body that is, body slowly becoming real, the first step i took was yesterday feel, the footsteps coming faster nowContinue reading “this is the story”