by Nancy Mitchell | Aug 19, 2021
Uterus, You Always the gracious hostess, stretched thinto accommodate your growing guests—threepregnancies a breeze. Until the physicaltherapist asked if mine was still intactI hadn’t thought of you in forty years.How rude of me! But in my defense,I never had a sense...
by Alafia Nicole Sessions | Aug 11, 2021
for Aunt Lydia for the heart disease shepherd’s purse for the...
by Lolita Stewart-White | Aug 6, 2021
by Zakiya M. Cowan | Aug 3, 2021
To Matlou My grandma and I spend the morning cleaning collard greens. Wepick the leaves from their stems, turning them over for bugs and soil. Real...
by Cyrus Cassells | Jul 28, 2021
O has-been mother of the free-flowing booze & handy diet pills, You cashed me in—a cool sacrifice: to jump- Start your floundering career, You let the bozo Lothario You got hitched to Turn me into his very own Beverly Hills 90210 Pinocchio, While Ms. Pampered As...
by Shyanne Figueroa Bennett | Jul 26, 2021
Poetess Anoints Herself In wild audacity I wedded Word, obscured ragged frock made fit for my existence. I claimed branch broken weavings as my incendiary hair. Hovered over crumbling coast while my silken breath swung bare-breasted. The sea was nothing but spit in...
