Black Child
Black child, black child You weren’t meant to thrive Black child, black child You were only meant to hide In this world that is broken And needs to be awoken To the words that are spoken Black child, black child Don’t run from them Black child, black child Keep your hands on the rim Of […]
Reverse Pygmalion
I’m an architect. It’s what I do. Design. That’s what you start with. I first started designing things when I got my first girlfriend. She had a sort of magnetic pull about her that drew me to start planning imaginary buildings dedicated to her – oh, that column is the bridge of her nose, the […]
Inhale
In the arteries of Louisville, the lighting makes our skin look cheap. The city is thick with people swarming pointed buildings ready to angle themselves inward at us like darts. The heat is a bad decision in the making. I’m a greasy-haired teenage patchwork of my mother’s guilt and my father’s temper slumped and watching […]
A Robin’s View
They dreamed of birds flying high, and joining them. The thought of soaring above buildings and clouds… it amazed them. And the fact that they could do this was extraordinary… Or so they thought. They roughly awoke from their daydream to the sound of a fight. Polk county jail. How charming. They slithered their way […]
Souls
Radiant lamps contrast the dullness of my person, past ghosts and know it all souls try to lure me through the promise of a better tomorrow and silently sob as another youngster succumbs to their sorrow. the wind moans and shrieks, the force of their groans attempt to deafen the peripheral voices egging my attempts on […]
Bi The Way
When I was in kindergarten I told my parents I was going to get married to a girl. I carried my love in a place somewhere deep, humped it across the mountain ups and downs of growing up, blowing wishes and kisses to the wind of my daydreams, isn’t that the way dreams are supposed […]
P.O.P (Pane or Pain)
Outside of my window what do I see? Unfortunately, that’s a question that I find myself unable to answer simply because I don’t have the courage to gaze beyond the pane that so covertly hides the pain that I feel so deeply inside of my being. The transparent material made from grains of sand that […]
A Stained Glass Window
Water trickled down the Stained Glass window as the rain poured outside. It seeps through the cracks of the window that was shattered, solely being held together by pure willpower alone. Though shattered and filled with colors, the image seen through the window is nearly perfect and clear. Through that window is a different world, […]
