Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Nine Senior pastor state senator Name meaning “merciful” Church eldress, oldest to be shot Great grandnephew tries to shield her First and youngest shot College administrator and pastor Doctor her last name not a title Sunday school teacher Track coach and pastor Librarian Church sexton Seventy-four-year-old pastor
this concrete here is where my brother’s last breath left his body began to circulate elsewhere; some people will tell you there’s nothing poetic about black boys murdered
...walk into a bar in America. Butterworth says, I’m being repackaged. Ben says, I’m being rebranded. Jemima says, I remember when they branded my mama on her back.
The bartender says, I could stand in the middle of Main Street and kill somebody and I wouldn’t...
My mom and I don’t spend all day talking about the white priests who raped Great Grandma Marie, unless it’s a poem. Suffering is boring. Do you know how big the word genocide is? How long. I’m taking a class on Indian temporalities. I tell my mom...
Rotor wash, or the downward-flowing Air by which our helicopters formed Imprints in the jungle grass beneath Now stands effectively for Vietnam Because our understanding of that war Omitted many things but not the wind We bowed our heads and fled. In this case we
super-cool ultrablack a tan/purple had a beautiful shade.
he had a double-natural that wd put the sisters to shame. & his beads were imported sea shells (from some blk/country i never heard of) he was triple-hip.
his tikis were hand carved out of ivory & came express from the...
Que será, el café of this holy, incorporated place, the wild steam of scorched espresso cakes rising like mirages from the aromatic waste, waving over the coffee-glossed lips of these faces
assembled for a standing breakfast of nostalgia, of tastes that swirl with the delicacy...
Crip (noun): slang for a disabled person/the whole of the disabled community/ a school of thought Example: “I’m on crip time” Meaning: Time bends differently when the universe that is my body dictates it