MUSIC INTERLUDE Leahann“ La FemmeBear” Mitchell
You have come to love swimming. Ride waves with relative ease. Offering gentle reminders when you feel tossed, pushed in-that hurt people, hurt people. And you have also taken the shape of watericy, cold.
You then ask forgiveness for having thrown others into the deep end too.
MUSIC INTERLUDE Leahann“ La FemmeBear” Mitchell
A PARTICULAR TRUTH ABOUT GROWN FOLKS AND GRITS
Written by Cynthia Manick. Performed by Nyla Watson
Particular truth about grown folks’ grits. I have eaten grits in the summer. Boiled the water first, prepping for a type of translucent, baby. Not too far from sunflower seeds and peanut shells. What it must feel like to be salt. A wooden spoon knowing there is beauty in the life of flowers. No, I mean natural things. With the best use by or expiration date. As if we’ re born waiting to go back to ground. No, I mean Disney talks about the circle of life. But no character has both parents alive enough to pay rent.