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Cruelty

(inspired by Lucille Clifton)

Feb 28, 2022
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Feb 28, 2022
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A litany for living

(inspired by Audre Lorde)

Feb 28, 2022
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Feb 28, 2022
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Witch

They always call powerful women born straight from the cosmos, created to heal and mend others witches.

Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021

This Place of a Thousand Hills

This place of a thousand hills, this place of thousands of lives spilled, because someone drew lines, measured heights and noses, created…

Dec 3, 2021
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Dec 3, 2021
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The Wall of Names

Imagine your sweet brother hacked in the head with a machete, skull splitting easy as a banana tree.

Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021

grown men’s tears

grown men’s tears well, swell and fall in my presence like water beads bubbled up by salt sprinkled on courgette and aubergine, bleeding…

Dec 3, 2021
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Dec 3, 2021
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white woman dreadlocks

I wonder what the white woman with hair half dreadlocked, half straight as a bone felt when the black poet told her she couldn’t have her…

Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021

sage green dream

she’s been planning this day her whole life, poured her wedding dreams  into sage green cream silk cushions, fairy lights, hay bales, real…

Dec 3, 2021
Dec 3, 2021

dustbin man

I see the graceful swing of his smooth locs first,  stretching like fingers down his muscled back;

Aug 28, 2021
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Aug 28, 2021
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and the trees keep singing

I see an old black man walking slowly in a park and think — YES  for you are used to forests leaves green, bright, fresh  - no crispy…

Aug 28, 2021
Aug 28, 2021
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Grace

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Traveler, poet, educator, yogi, activist, artist, writer, British-Jamaican Londoner living in Ghana https://soundcloud.com/gracelouisewood

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