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JKLM (I wrote you this letter)
you will hold your corpse above him where his hair used to be Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged love letter, love poem, nationalpoetryday, poem, Poetry, twin flame
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‘You Had No Father, You Had The Armor’
I wrote about inherited trauma and the way my relationships with my brother and father informed my attraction to men. This piece began writing me last summer after I listened to Jay Z’s album, 4:44. Here is an excerpt: I … Continue reading
Posted in Published essays
Tagged abuse, Blackness, fathers, gender, masculinity, queerness, Selective Mutism, silence, Trauma
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What Hateful Sermons Taught Me About Love
You will learn that love is not about whips and if you believe in a God, you will come to realize that your belief comes from love and all that comes from love will come back to you in the shape of love. Continue reading
Posted in Published essays
Tagged abuse, church, family, homophobia, orientation, qpoc, qtpoc, queer, QWOC, religion, sexuality
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Dear You (Who Isn’t Ready For Me)
in all of my openings there is a silent space a width that expands or a come hither or the larger part of the most honest part of me and it spells ‘yes’ like lips parting and breath leaving or … Continue reading
Posted in Love letters
Tagged love, love letter, Love letters, love poem, loveletter, manifesting, Poetry
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Why Are You Afraid of Love?
I wrote about inter-generational trauma, emotional labor and femininity and masculinity after watching Beyoncé’s Lemonade. This piece went live on The Establishment yesterday. It’s my first paid piece and I’m very proud of it 😉 Here’s an excerpt: I will … Continue reading
Letters Home
What black lies in white with brown smudges?
what hands lie in wait for mixing colors?
I want to paint blue in front of you
hold services for your adolescence Continue reading
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Tagged February, Letters Home, love, love letter, Love Poetry, poem, Poetry
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Longer Around
I’m rounded and warm on the table
a solid bowl for you
in the wake of your flesh leak, I think mostly of your eyes
the outline of the space between your give and my bite
or the shadow that follows the shape of you, when you’re facing me
now I am out and over, with a spoon
ready to be slapped or served to you Continue reading
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Tagged February, love, love letter, love poem, Love Poetry, poem, Poetry
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Mirror Limit
Now it’s nearly Valentine’s Day
and I am painted red with your hands
and your splitting chest
soon you will be sliced open and closed back up Continue reading
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Tagged love, lovepoem, lovepoetry, Poetry, valentine, valentine poem, valentines day
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Bubble wrap
I could not taste you close, when you first fed you were brown and beige colored memory then nearly four years later, we met again between Fort Greene stares my rolled up hair and my fingers numb I was cold … Continue reading
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