The Little Mermaid and Credit

The Little Mermaid and Credit

by | Mar 3, 2018 | Poetry

Back in 2010, I got the song “Poor Unfortunate Souls” from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” stuck in my head (I get all kinds of songs stuck in my head), and as I often do, I started making strange parallels to life lessons I have learned....
Telling the Truth: Black Panther

Telling the Truth: Black Panther

by | Feb 24, 2018 | Poetry

Everyone looks the same In Hollywood Same size, same clothes Same look Or they don’t sell for long Telling the truth Too Black Well, to be fair We buy it Our gilded cage is here Delivered by Uber And the ones that step out Brave enough to stand out Get attacked...
Don’t be Afraid of the Smoke

Don’t be Afraid of the Smoke

by | Feb 10, 2018 | Poetry

The music was an incense And she cried out Don’t be afraid of the friction She spoke of the embers The implicated doubt Don’t be afraid of the smoke Where there’s smoke there’s fire And she cried out Don’t be afraid of the friction She...
With the Old and the New Again

With the Old and the New Again

by | Feb 3, 2018 | Poetry

The below is from the last day of 2015 because my soul needed remindering! Blackbird Bluest Eye Bone straight hair Skinny thigh This is not I This is part I This in part I This impart I Winged creature fly Dragon Fly Dragonfly This is I This is why One of the good...
Thank You Chelo

Thank You Chelo

by | Jan 27, 2018 | Poetry, Work

“My thumb pad rests along the crack in the porcelain that’s been filled in with gold, a Japanese tradition that honors past wounds. I think that if people were repaired the same way; foreheads etched with brass hairline fractures, chips of silver embedded along...