We’ve Got Mad Love: The Gods of Ourselves in Salt Body Shimmer
byI finish Salt Body Shimmer the same week the world receives the news that the cops who killed Breonna Taylor will not be charged…
Social Justice October 2020
Unrest
byThey believe the world can be good, so I tap the car horn and raise a fist in solidarity with the six or seven teenagers, all…
Walking Past a Farm on the First Day of Spring
byBlades open the earth, with a smelllike blood or bread rubbed to crumbs. News of my darkening country has methinking of poets slaughtered by…
E-Note
byIt is the silence before and after protests that finds me unable to speak. What we fail tosay and what we didn’t say is…
Pact
by“The deaths of two Saudi sisters… discovered on the banks of New York’s Hudson River… a double suicide” CNN 10/29/18 Together. Our thin- lipped…
Good Trouble
byFor John Lewis This Artemis country, helping deliver youWith a lead pipe, baseball bat, and a kick To the ribs like response to your kicking From…
Sex, Politics, and the Tocantins River
by(Tocantins – Brazil, 1990) At four-twenty-four in the afternoon, the five dogs in the hard-packed dirt farm-yard were oblivious to the political meeting going…
Lamentation or The End of the World as We Know It
byArtist Statement: My Long Journey of Lament My painting is in response to a journey that I have been on these past several months,…