The turtle widow
The wavelength of red.
The lineage of honeycrisp
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
you laugh about buying
duck eggs from the farmstand
Billions of snakes
deep throating themselves into oblivion.
Outside, that bright horizontal line cut the land in two. In his mind, Murrey was everywhere but the kitchen. In his mind, the bitterness of the coffee diluted, and it was morning.
Mountains can block clouds, peak so high rain can’t climb them
fat red flowers, tomato toast
Imagine my gender
did not belong to the highest bidder.
she squints, pausing only to wipe the sheen from her black brow
she birthed me- her first son, laying in a cot under a leaking roof