The Divinely Bestowed Rejection

       for those who take hearing "no" personally for those who find Rejection is hard on the ears even more trifling to the heart I see why men like to "that's why you ugly with you stank ass breath anyway" you when they feel rejected   ; I was always taught that rejection …

Micro-aggression

              for poc holding it down in the midst of whiteness The microagression rolls off the tongue, the whiteness is a background and I am the color that splashes and spills contaminating the clean, pure wash prim and primed I must be more than black I must be more than …

Her skin, my skirt

This skin, a skirt that sways and parades the leg, the length long and strong,   skin has seen the scrapes experienced the dirt, the cut of glass and gravel, absorbed the shock of imbalance This skin has been the fallen one   This skin, kin to my mother's my ancestors hue near to the …

Write out

for girls who speak to voids I do not mean to be that girl who sits in class who writes poetry for her blog distracting the folks around her but I am only going to get out if I write myself out I will only get over if I get myself over by writing over …

Chase

Run as if the wind is behind you bitting at your ankles, like scared rattlesnakes   Run as if the wind carries you like the feather you are light, and sunlight, beam, and post structure and solid but light, and beam   you have the right to run and pick up leave nothing behind   …