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Get to know the left brain of Aa.
Camel Blues Blues Blues
Chasing the sun on a cloudy afternoon
tanning our feet in the light of the moon
Hoping the blue the globe will make us glow
as deeply as the sea
For the white globe does control the the tides
longing for the knowledge of our cell's memory
The lone wolves united in life's greatest mission
Life's greatest mysteries solved in two minutes
And all we ever had to do was smell the breeze and listen
Admiring the sun hitting the water
waves glistening
See
we are the stones that the builder refused but it was our stones that the building used so let's watch our flowers bloom under the light of the sun
Hoping that all of our battles have already been won
Counting our blessings
always adding to one
Because everything we've wished for
has already been done.
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Legacy
(For Maya)
Before the caged bird knew of Kingdom Come,
you chose to sing.
Only the moon could rival your hips' power
with every graceful swing
Hues of almond as radiant as a candle's wick,
to love myself as is
you taught me this.
Embibing your words of encouragement
with every empowering sip,
A woman of her word(s),
you have more than earned your eternal bliss
*Featured as part of the Special Collection at the
Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University
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Harlem Laundromat #47
Watching the dirt of last week wash away
Washer 22 purges all the rules I forgot to obey.
Swishing like dimes in a hobo's cub
my freakem' dress is fumigated of residual lust
Telenovelas basking off the screen
while all the mistakes I made are simply erased with bleach
With just a few quarters,
I am redeemed!
Merely with the risk that in the dryer, they might shrink
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Funky Ho
Awakened
at night
by the thought of you
Captivated,
by the beams of light
you produce
as
The sky turns shades of gray
and chakra blue,
I am comforted only by the brakes
of the B32
The metallic lullaby of the J train
in my eardrum
Knowing that I have promised that you
are the only one
From the other side of the island
from which you come,
awakened at night
because of temptations succumb
