Note to a Dark Girl
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 9 No. 2, "Festival: Celebrating Southern Literature." Find more from that issue here.
i slip into black houses slip out of black slips black lace
black pearls and slip under your black fire burn into silvery
black rose buds slip into your skin and begin to sew up
black holes black hurt spots slip into black muscles and
realize that black bones hold up the mythical universe give
back black strength through black kisses and experience
black desert love. Experience unpoisoned black languages
unphotographed black breasts possessed by black babies
to listen and survive off black breath black discovery
heavy with black voices praying to black angels singing
black poems inside black nights black womb infused with
dark sperm nightmare black nightmare again black baby
black death black hunger black poems to fill the womb
black wind to guard against the rain black angels to cause
black salvations black springs black female child promising
life.