Charleston SC poetry
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Poem: Brother Denmark
(about Denmark Vesey) the history books tell us that you won your freedom when you won the lottery, but freedom isn’t something you win – freedom is a birthright. freedom is as seamless as your name, even when it was changed by a captain who claimed to control the sea. But God is the only […]
The Pecha Kucha poem
the new foundation I. every moment that you are alive is the only moment that matters. the past is a glass house and we throw stones trying to shatter walls that need to come down. we are all architects of negativity – brick by brick of bold thoughts holding together bodies bound by blood […]
the light belongs to you (for jasiri)
you were the flame before the phoenix, the boy who poured his heart into the sky. on the day you died, i tiptoed calmly through the forest of your memory then walked into the rising stillness of reality, the absence of your smile. tonight, i can not think of you without locking fingers with trees, […]
