My Year of Light

Need I remind you of the properties of light? The way that it indiscriminately fills up any space that allows it in; how it does not hold back or intimidate; how it is simultaneously pragmatic and holy?



From PARTY POLITICS

There’s part of me, probably, that feels safe letting men
let me down, I write while leaving.


Smoke

But at 36, I can leave
Wash the smoke off.




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The cover of "Tell Me What You See" which features the letters of the title arranged as if part of an eye exam.

I go to prepare a place for you

1) There are mai tais. I’ve never seen you with a mai tai, don’t know what even goes in a mai tai, but the mai tais are there for me.


Image shows sprigs of wheat in sharp focus in the foreground, with a sunrise or set over water in the background, coloring the photo orange, pink, and purple in blurred focus.

Ghazal: Morning

Over many rooftops the world glitters for us, in a sky bereft of ancestors.


The Capitol building dome at night, yellow caution tape in the foreground

The Other Side of Imagination

This month, consider what resources you find yourself in abundance of if you are not Black. And if you are, which resources this month are you reclaiming?