a curse to adam
Letitia Marie Pratt dear husband: you are doomed to meander the earth alone but she will not have you. you’ve grown wary of scowling rivers that flow between thighs. waters scorch your tongue as your young crawl from my hips...
Category: Poetry 2
Three Poems from The Best Estimation in the World
Sonia Farmer SIT DOWN AND TRY TO BE SOMEONE: (This Is Not) an Interview with the Interior Designer 1. how wonderful that at this kitchen table people are seeking adventure knowing that it will be delivered to them come in do you...
Barbados Mulatto Girl
Adam Patterson My skin is yellow / My hair is long / Between two worlds / I do belong / My father was rich and white / He forced my mother late one night / What do they call me / My name is Saffronia / My name is Saffronia. –...
Resurrection
Jovanté Anderson Gangsters use embalming fluid to kill The Jamaica Star And on this, the ninth night, when you gather by the sanctity of rum, pouring slow to bless the thirsty earth and light the path to places you cyaah see,...
