Mack Rogers is a queer Black writer whose work appears in Foglifter, Diode Poetry Journal, Glass, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. Mack is a poetry reader for Split Lip Magazine, staff critic for Pencilhouse, and poetry editor for Zero Readers Magazine. He has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. He lives with his partner and their three cats in Raleigh, NC. Find him on mackrogers.com.

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My mother’s scrapbook found while I was looking for inspiration

By MACK ROGERS

Me in my Sunday best, a cheerful smile on my face.