Poetry

constellations of the perseid family

Constellations

it starts with a star. 

interlocking tan curves on an orange background

good things — a list

good thing I know how to be alone
so many people don’t 

Clashing sides of blue and red with jagged white stars

A World Divided.

A house divided cannot stand; / I grew up in a house divided.

Branches of trees in the mist

Silence

It is an odd grief, missing something bound to return 

line of figures standing each one more solid than the one that came before

Interlaced Legacy

What is legacy? / What someone leaves behind; / Difficult to vocalize / it is often unseen, / Unheard, / or even unknown.

a person meeting in the middle of multiple colored circles

7 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman

I’m standing at the intersection of identity / Each piece of me yielding for another / But sometimes there’s a collision 

two figures in a forest

Lessons on Friendship

Stay here. Take a walk and watch / our steps fall into synchrony like an old dance / we used to know better than our own names.

red circles overlapping

To Mercury

I walk downstairs and you are not there.

hands touching

I am Human and I was Here

when sunlight hits foggy glass just right

prints reveal themselves, oil smeared into smiling faces

canvas paintings on easels

In My Ideal Universe

My body, mind, and soul are a solar system

Made up of hundreds of moons, millions of asteroids, and a multitude of planets

The depth of my composition largely unexplored