Night Swimming

Family Ties

The breeze raises a few curls from the back of my neck
And I feel the day uncoiling
Slowly, thread by thread.

Lull

As Jericho took their dresses off of the line, she tried, studiously, to keep her eyes off of the water, and instead looked at the sky. It was gathering grey, as it almost always was. This was a harsh land, and a cold wind blew most of the year. Toda

Sea Born

I don’t go to Toon Town very often. That’s where the feral cats mostly stay now, but it’s just not the same without kids around. —A



Postcards from Tomorrowland

But what are my sons being six times more likely to incarcerated than their white peers, when compared to the abject suffering those peers must endure when they someday learn about why Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated?



Nothing My Black Children Will Learn About Will Be Worse Than the Mild Discomfort White Children Face While Learning About Racism

In this haunted house,
There’s no phantoms in the corridors
Poltergeists in the pantry
The walls don’t bleed,
And the mirror only shows your face,

Haunted House

Everyone kept vigil until their eyes stung, until the body was taken down and placed in a tomb that belonged to someone else. Then they went home, rubbing their arms against the morning chill, unable to speak. Perhaps they laid in the bed a long whil

Dawn is Coming

His hands were flat against his legs,
he knew the drill. He complied and complied.
But their body cams went dark.
He died.
Shot three times.

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