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Jul 16
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 15
Ay, Ay, Ay of the Black Grifa by Julia de Burgos Ay, ay, ay, that am kinky-haired and pure blackkinks in my hair, Kafir in my lips;and my flat nose Mozambiques. Black of pure tint, I cry and laughthe vibration of being a black statue;a chunk of night, in which my whiteteeth are lightning;and to …
Jul 15
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 14
In Colorado My Father Stacked and Scoured Dishes by Eduardo C. Corral in a Tex-Mex restaurant. His co-workers,unable to utter his name, renamed him Jalapeño. If I ask for a goldfish, he spits a glob of phlegminto a jar of water. The silver letters on his black belt spell Sangrón. Once, borracho,at dinner, he said: …
Jul 14
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 13
Freedom in Ohio by Jennifer Chang I want a futuremaking hammocksout of figs and accidents.Or a future quieterthan snow. The leopardsstake out the backyardand will flee at noon.My terror is not secret,but necessary,as the wild must be,as sandhill cranes mustthread the meadowyet again. Thus, autumncautions the coldand the wild never wantto be wild. So whatto …
Jul 13
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 12
Excuse Me My Trespasses by Chiyuma Elliot Jimsoned, my words are; clovered, clustered.Excuse my hair, my platform eyes.I’m crowded by theoremsand connected investigations;they clutter the chairs, they jimmy all the locks.They return my kisses with such sobrietythat blue and slow are crowns, synonyms.I might have waited elsewhere.But looking is its own gym, its own pay-off,and …
Jul 12
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 11
A City’s Death By Fire by Derek Walcott After that hot gospeller has levelled all but the churched sky,I wrote the tale by tallow of a city’s death by fire;Under a candle’s eye, that smoked in tears, IWanted to tell, in more than wax, of faiths that were snapped like wire.All day I walked abroad …