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Blues Alchemy in Sinners: part 1

and other suppositions

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A Lifeline poem

Have you atoned? Who am I to ask you ask? I am your daughter.Engage in this

Jun 17 •

Drafts from early February: Refusing to Feel Disorganized on the Master's Clock

I don’t know how I got here.

Jun 12 •

This absurdity that we live in our Black bodies. Can it have a place to go other than our bodies? It is too much for the body. It must have…

Rice on the table And a pile o peas How many, tell me, how many Has Satchmo eat? I’ll give you a sum Or I’ll give you some plenty Tell me, how much…

Jun 11 •

"Communal Organs & The Internal World of Girls," a substack novel and a multi-media call-and-response

It's up to us to imagine what that looks like

Jun 10 •

When a storyteller wails, who’s there to catch her drift?

A selection of partial poems and quotes: Connect the dots for me, won't you?

Jun 9 •

2:11

Someone said I've been doing mixed-media projects

They're right. Listen in.

Jun 8

Micro-macro love poem

Which I maybe do not write often

Jun 8 •

Let's get straight to these poems

Jun 3 •

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