WitchThey always call powerful women born straight from the cosmos, created to heal and mend others witches.Dec 3, 2021240Dec 3, 2021240
This Place of a Thousand HillsThis place of a thousand hills, this place of thousands of lives spilled, because someone drew lines, measured heights and noses, created…Dec 3, 2021421Dec 3, 2021421
The Wall of NamesImagine your sweet brother hacked in the head with a machete, skull splitting easy as a banana tree.Dec 3, 202148Dec 3, 202148
grown men’s tearsgrown men’s tears well, swell and fall in my presence like water beads bubbled up by salt sprinkled on courgette and aubergine, bleeding…Dec 3, 202161Dec 3, 202161
white woman dreadlocksI wonder what the white woman with hair half dreadlocked, half straight as a bone felt when the black poet told her she couldn’t have her…Dec 3, 202149Dec 3, 202149
sage green dreamshe’s been planning this day her whole life, poured her wedding dreams into sage green cream silk cushions, fairy lights, hay bales, real…Dec 3, 20212Dec 3, 20212
dustbin manI see the graceful swing of his smooth locs first, stretching like fingers down his muscled back;Aug 28, 20213633Aug 28, 20213633
and the trees keep singingI see an old black man walking slowly in a park and think — YES for you are used to forests leaves green, bright, fresh - no crispy…Aug 28, 2021204Aug 28, 2021204
the forest dwellernow he has his own time at last, all he wants is a small cottage in a forest near grandma’s place, where they played poo-sticks dropped…Aug 28, 2021Aug 28, 2021
dear ladies and gentlemenhow is it ok for a barefoot man to beg sniffling on a train, for change, for food, for a little bit of comfort, struggling to get the words…Aug 23, 2021Aug 23, 2021
the lone womanYaa saw the girl outside, from her chair next to the window of the Lebanese restaurant on Edgeware Road, pacing. Young, pretty, black long…Aug 23, 2021Aug 23, 2021
madThe mad woman on the roundabout looked young, early 30s. Not yet wrinkled or covered in dust. Almost normal. The only tell-tale signs her…Aug 22, 2021Aug 22, 2021
splitwe hiked green hills all day in brown heat, sweat through t-shirts, tried to be brave for each other’s sake, stretched feet rock to rock…Aug 18, 2021Aug 18, 2021
ancestorsour ancestors leave wisdom deep in the backs of our brains, reach hands in to plant more as we grow, snatch out cankers of fear, guide us…Aug 18, 20213Aug 18, 20213
afterlifewhen you think of death, what do you see? I see a glowing spirit, sitting cross-legged, smiling, drawing souls back to itself from broken…Aug 18, 2021Aug 18, 2021
black boy joythey step tentatively, then bolder, race eachother into rolling white water, hold shoulders, hands, laugh, stumble, fall, point out…Aug 17, 2021Aug 17, 2021
boys boysI watch a band of brothers, bellies banku-big, strut shoulder-heavy, stumble like small boys, in shallows, shells, sand, congratulate each…Aug 17, 2021Aug 17, 2021