Keeper of the Vortex
Agatha tended the Vortex. It was her punishment for not obeying the Prefect of the
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When We Were Cowboys
When the nurse came into the room, I had just awakened from a dream. She
“Serenity Prayer for a Black Woman,” “Black and Blue,” “Kelly Price is Missing,” and “Light-Skin Chick Blues”
God grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change for I cannot change
the kinks and coils of my hair,
the skin that criminalizes me,
the body reduced to what it can do and who for;
“In Tandem”, “Corpsing”, “Game of Thrones, S1 E7”, “Hudson Estuary”, “Alley Singer”, and “You, Again”
As my age gains on me, my mother stops short
of hers, buying toys yearly for my grown daughter —
