Tag: women of color

  • Leftover Women

    There are some of us who the world forgot. we had your wife’s eyes, your sister’s nose, your daughter’s smile but we were none of these, so you didn’t remember, what the nights stole from us, plucked out, carved out, slowly but surely tore out, with fingers that tasted like tradition. There are some of…

  • Solstice

    I am the bitter aftertaste, at the back of your throat. The greasy regret that sits slick, heavy, and clenching. I am the earth, midwinter, dry and frozen and I have forgotten  what spring means.