HTML Color Swatches in Black [Girl]
“taken-Black” …girl, too umber for proper / amber alert. Black / girl, skipped right past “missing” into / “Lost: B L A C K girl”. nobody / even noticed
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ReadInstructions for a Child of an Assembly Line
You are younger than her labor for [redacted aircraft manufacturing company]. -
ReadCadet College, Kohat
Humza went to school with me in Kohat. We were always competing with each other for the first position in class. -
ReadHow to Deprogram a Parent in 7 Easy Steps
Do you have an elderly parent who has fallen victim to internet conspiracy theories? -
ReadI wanted to wash my face and my feet. I wanted to be invited somewhere.
I was being led by something. So tender and raw inside of my body that I can’t point to a specific place — there was me before I had ever seen a dam. -
ReadSmoke Screens
The week the pandemic hits, I break my lease in Little Haiti and drive fifteen hours up the I-95 to be with my parents. -
ReadEditor’s Note
What we need is a value system, and not just values. How can we create a system that helps us understand and structure our lives in a way that allows us to thrive by environmental design? -
ReadThis Country is Motherless and Makes me Forget
I am not. Two weeks or more since a call. To be in America, / You must see American, close your eyes and dream American -
ReadThere is No Other Way to Say This
Every morning the sparrows sing / Every day there is another funeral -
Readhere’s the space i carry. here’s the space that’s empty. • this our sunken sweet parade
so let’s talk then about unruliness / how it defies the joys of order & everything / that’s missed. -
ReadEnough Rain
Quail rise in ruffles from the sage. / Pebbles I scraped into my knee look / like they belong there. -
ReadIn Bad Faith
Elsewhere a bell rings /medieval in its calling and here / I fumble for a reliquary -
ReadNo One is Taking the Doughnut Shortage Seriously (and all that that implies)
— or the ketchup packet one / over in the adjacent deli, the dearth of good strawberries / in produce. -
ReadThose People
In 1996, the year my mother died of a heroin overdose, Purdue Pharma started to sell OxyContin in the United States. -
ReadThis disappearing, how it makes • thread/bare
house become island, as inland pushes out / land. Outlandish, you say, this push and pull—