POETRY & PROSE

They were warned. They were warned of the ones whose smiles soothed the coldest hearts, whose laughter caused the darkest of rooms…

Me, a little girl In the crazy garden Working for the big girls I look up as They strut in With the…

Here we go, baby Early city, hungry to conquer The doors open but you Ignore the beggar on the train Weak grandfather…

When do unattended-to childhood patterns Turn away from shame and Toward intentional tools of destruction Requiring only a whispered demand to be …

softening denotes a lesson learned and overcome: the reunification of soul wisdom with the mind i examine a slice of the atrium…

On a dark and cold December night that mystified the looming melancholy stretching its wings over the starry blanket, yellow street lights…

If my heart could write forever, What would it say? Would it just make musings of the pretty shapes on pretty paper…

When I was an afterling, a young one without knowledge, I imagined the bad things were confined to the dark. It granted…

As a woman, people hate when I don’t smile As a black woman, people hate when I smirk A knowing smile Should…

I never really bought into the mythical “falling” into love. I believe in the mystical “rising” into love. The fairy dust of…

Some sex workers Are independent, self-employed Negotiating the game With the forgotten, or unenjoyed Wide lens teaches Wisdom settles into bed “Every…

truth shifts to trust with one required base pair reassignment. … trutH; drop the grand Hoax shush the lies to self and…