Poetry
Gathering JuJu
Two eyes struck him cold Like snowballs pelting him flush His body frozen in fear, the streets rising up in him again, shoulders ...Your Biggest Fan
Love, laugh, live They promise us much with these words Heartbreak, sadness, death This is the reality of life Our world is full ...In Hindsight: A Thank You (for Yusef Komunyaaka)
Thank you for your drooping branches, Graying at the stems and leaves splaying Between me & a race soldier’s bullet. I never knew what ...A Day At The Frosty Freeze Park: Oakland, 1986
A Caravan of Mack trucks Rumble on top of scarred divots on Hegenberger Road Escorting in another toxic cloud The Jerry West emblem is ...- CultureCreativityParenting & FamilySelf-Help & RelationshipsFictionPoetryMemoir & AutobiographiesEnvironment
generations: a poem
The boy passed the joint to his grandfather. A bulbous white cloud enveloped them, Locking souls together by generations: Generations walking backwards, Generations drowning ... - CreativitySelf-Help & RelationshipsFictionPoetryMemoir & AutobiographiesCurrent Affairs & PoliticsCulture
I Barely Knew Him
He shook with small blades of grass for a millisecond, like he was slow dancing with a dream. Our eyes locked misty-white, ... Within: Without
His black face blurs, melting against the dark, plate-glass window. He told himself he wouldn’t stagger, Fuck, stand up on weak knees. ...