1.
Your limbs buried
in northern muscle carry
their own heartbeat
2.
Mississippi…
alert with
conjugated pain
3.
young Chicago
stutterer whistling
more than flesh
4.
your pores
wild stars embracing
southern eyes
5.
foot prints blooming
in the night remember
your blood
6.
in this southern
classroom summer settles
into winter
7.
i hear your
pulse swallowing
neglected light
8.
your limbs
fly off the ground
little birds…
9.
we taste the
blood ritual of
southern hands
10.
blue midnite
breaths sailing on
smiling tongues
11.
say no words
time is collapsing
in the woods
12.
a mother’s eyes
remembering a cradle
pray out loud
13.
walking in Mississippi
i hold the stars
between my teeth
14.
your death
a blues, i could not
drink away.
1.
Telephone wires sang
her voice over
soft sister laughter
2.
you held us
with summer stained
smiles of hope
3.
i hold your
breath today…you sail home
across the ocean
4.
i see you Nubia
walking your Mississippi walk
God in your hands.
1.
Blue atom
poet transcribing
our flesh
2.
your quicksilver
words waterfalling in
sweet confession
3.
you have taken down
the morning turned it into
a roar of blackness
4.
your poems…
butterflies fluttering down
to earth.