They hand me a mask

and call it my face,

pressing it tight

like I was born wearing it.

broke homegrown curses writing verses backwards in cursive each sentence a surgical precise incis...

I lay beside the anger like a fire that won’t die down, embers whispering what the flames were to...

How did time convertMorganucodons into humans?

Over 200 million years ago, just walking around d...

It came back

like a storm we swore we’d outgrown,

a shadow stretching

from wounds we nev...

Part not thou lips, for I can hear the truth before it’s spoken.

The breath you hold trembles ...

The words you carry are heavier than the night.

I see the storm gathering behind your teeth,

Stand down.

Not because I am fragile, but because I am finished shrinking to make room for som...

Shadows hide under the sun, quiet as secrets that refuse to die.

Even in the brightest heat, t...

We are the object of desire

Melanin men spindled and folded into robes of gold

Whipped blac...

DAMN—

that’s the only word

big enough

to hold the weight

of what just broke open.

Pour the water to wash away the weight of yesterday’s dust.

Sip the wine to honor the fire sti...

Angry, reflective....

two flames in the same gl,

one burning hot,

one burning slow.

I stare a...

STOP, just Stop.

I’m done swallowing storms

to keep the peace.

I’m done carrying weight

t...

I AM SO

REAL REAL,

do you know

how I

FEEL FEEL???

some

ISH,

I just gotta

DEAL DEAL,

this...

There’s a riot breaking... fists, fire,

A storm of everything

Walls shake,

Truth cracks,...

don’t get the wrong idea
when you read the words I write
and listen with attentive ears
to the...

These are my damn words

not softened,

not sanded down,

not dressed up

to make anyone ...

when I say "please" am I asking or begging am I being respectful or begging for a chance to be he...

Burning down the Wickerman

holds like setting fire

to myself, I built to survive.

Every ...

Christians praise a trinity but are monotheistic

Media is fiction we worship because its unrea...

Given a spark of madness is the madness of insisting that all is, when all are miserable.

Diff...

loose strands growing side by side twisting into one tangled vine strengthen by time grows to...

does healing look like progress a quiet home inside voices children who do not flinch when their ...

was once a poet

then survived the rinse cycle

writer of poems

Big momma hands stilled

The kitchen forgot its hymns

Mercy missed supper

Cue the music

Strike up the band

Manufacture the tears

Manufacture the cheers

Sanctified in s...

I saw a deacon picking up trash around our church’s parking lot

So I grabbed a broom to sweep ...

Silence walked in like it knew my name told me chill everything don’t need to be explained as i...

"Mother" a sacred word revered and worth its weight in gold children learn to bow their head and ...

Enough?

Still.

Sharks are 50 to 100 million years older than trees!

Guess which came first, dogs or fleas?

Its already bedtime and I am putting all rumours to rest. Im well rested and the world has tested...

I am trying to be civil

Sensible

As you say civilized

I am a creation of your civilization

I ...

Everything in his power to degrade the Black

voting rights trying his best to supress our vote

My dreaded season not that

far away

mattter of fact starting to

feel its effect more and...

I detest the taste of it

it's unpleasant aromaset before me
wanting to turn away and ask for ...

I was walking around my room the other day and every I turned I stubbed my toe. Like God was tryi...

I love olives, the green kind. Not the black one that are locked in the cans. At least with the g...

That time of year when

butterfly U R here

Colorful silky delicate

bobbin dippin like Smo...

Got the trump infused name callin

try to shame folks

this racist administration a phony

joke a...

Dont write much bout my experiences in Vietnam

but this one piicture stays in my mind all the ...

My rhymes are weapons so lethal

One day they might justchange people

Sow seeds so potent, t...

I think about
things

great and small
short and tall
how much it will cost
the interest on ...

Is it something that can take away from me? I won the skin color lottery. The reason I am winning...