5 Texts Equal?, YCA Poetry Challenge, Day 29 of 30
Today is April 29. I *should* have been writing one poem per day for the past 29 days. That's because I accepted the Young Chicago...
Things I Love About You, YCA Poetry Challenge, Day 4
Things I love about you “You dance like a black woman,” she said. And although there is a part of me that wants to bite back with a what...
Evocotive, YCA Poetry Challenge, Day 3
Young Chicago Author's daily poetry challenge Day 3 came with a challenge that I did not expect to be as difficult as it was. In fact, I...
I Hope You Chance, YCA Challenge, Day 2
Today is day two of the April poetry challenge from Young Chicago Authors. Today's challenge includes the assignment to listen to a...
Gifts on a Shelf, YCA Challenge, Day 1
In four years, he gave me a shelf full of gifts, none of them things you could pick up and touch A city, blues music, slam poetry, tacos...
I heard they shot a kid today
I teach teenage boys in shades that range from Crayola flesh to dark as night, turn on the light, I am afraid for his safety. Walking out...
[silent no more]
Red tinted tears stream Down chocolate brown cheeks Heads bowed, knees taken, Bloody rivers wind through the streets. Yet my silence...
