Growing Gills
My people be water people so long
they grew gills
My people be water people so long
they grew gills
vaseline more high-top fade
more pomade pressed
It is the aperture that we cling to,
an exit that implies a return.
i will peel the orange for you
and in the moment you hold
the piece in your mouth
i wish to be burnt alive
by what i love.
My mother still beads adhans into a rosary at the minaret
The wavelength of red.
The lineage of honeycrisp
I want a crown of daisies
& seeds of joy that will Insha Allah
become flowers on my grave
Summer in the 90's meant the word schizophrenia did not exist inside my mother
float inside you, fondle your hear