Daily Archives: February 21, 2013

Nkemkama

purpleeyed lemur long-limbing it up curtains instead of vines, she slides sinuous into cat-shaped corners. Nkemkama means “mine is the best” in Igbo.

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Cultural Graffiti

This is an old, old poem I am revising, as I believe it still has relevance today.  This does have ***FOUL LANGUAGE***  in it (I use a word in here I have never said–ever, and I don’t read this one … Continue reading

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anniversaries

Some days we celebrate meetings, marrying, birthing but others days without gifts, cakes, and kisses resonate loss we call healed that still stirs, deep and quiet under the sternum, waking for a moment when eyes meet the calendar and we pause, … Continue reading

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