you put this pen …
Evie Shockley
the black people left, and took with them their furious …
June 5, 1892 …
i want her tin skin. i want …
wedged in the top branches, rain still sighing …
we make midnight a maquette of the year: …
dreaming the lives of the ancestors, …
beauty eludes me, usually. i soak …
And now, reader, I come to a period in my unhappy life, which I would gladly forget if I could. Asia Graves looks straight ahead as she calmly recalls the night a man paid $200 on a Boston street to have sex with her. …
when the cultivators of corpses are busy seeding …
i. august 1619 …
the 14-year-old girl was treated like: …
he’s as high as a georgia pine, my father’d say, half laughing. southern trees …