hey.
he wanted me because my lips tasted like honey drenched with innocence my hands light in the depths of his he wanted me because i danced little circles outside the brim of his heart tapping, not knocking never forcing my way in he wanted me for the whispers the gentle embraces that offered […]
but first, for making it halfway through a year of abundance and blessings. i am grateful. grateful for july 14th, the day i brought home my new puppy, a blessing in himself. yellow, floppy ears puppy dog eyes accompanying every utterance of “no,” and then, acceding. me to him, not him to me. giant […]
She always sat in the back of the classroom but not because she was a bad student. I’d seen the professor hand back her papers marked with words like “well done!” Even “bravo!” And, at first, it surprised me but eventually just furthered the mystery. Her eyes were always sad and her hood on […]
a word a breath set to the rhythm of her tune
she inhaled the weight of the world with each breath and with each exhale fell deeper into the collapsed walls of a dream that she once called life and she knew that even if her body kept moving aimlessly in the direction of death as all living forms do still her soul would […]
They say I lay there for four hours In a puddle of black blood To me, it felt like minutes, seconds There will never be enough time For me to comprehend What happened, why it happened It was my fault for being there I was wrong for being a black man And for […]
I can remember the very moment that I stopped believing in God the Savior. Well, at least the series of moments. It went like this. Nineteen years old and as naïve as ever. Everything was great until it wasn’t. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I was in love with a man […]
