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Blue Libation
(For Walter Wright Sr. and Mariah Wright)
I lit the candle of poem 
in Mississippi & in the silence
of a blue morning, libation
rolled down my cheeks.

Mama Haiku 1

Packed to leave this country
called life — my mother
was stopped at the border

It was the cotton sheets.
my great-great grandparents’

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BLACK RENAISSANCE NOIRE

hands & lives
bent over small, tough
clouds. I slept
in the softness of my hotel
room, wrapped in a whisper
of my history.