Jul 07
Remember by Joy Harjo Remember the sky that you were born under,know each of the star’s stories.Remember the moon, know who she is.Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is thestrongest point of time. Remember sundownand the giving away to night.Remember your birth, how your mother struggledto give you form and breath. You are evidence …
Jul 06
Kimchi by Franny Choi My parents’ love for each otherwas pickled in the brine of 1980,spent two decades fermenting in an air-tight promise.Their occasional salt caughta slow fever, began to taste like a buried secret. They chokedin each other’s vinegar, dug for pocketsof fresh-cut love, once green and whole, now a shrunken head, floating.Every night, …
Jul 05
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise,In counting all our tears and sighs?Nay, let them only see …
Jul 04
Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson Lift every voice and sing,Till earth and heaven ring,Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;Let our rejoicing riseHigh as the list’ning skies,Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,Sing a song full of the …
Jul 03
say it with your whole black mouth by Danez Smith say it with your whole black mouth: i am innocent & if you are not innocent, say this: i am worthy of forgiveness, of breath after breath i tell you this: i let blue eyes dress me in guiltwalked around stores convinced the very skin …
