Category Archives: Black Arts

Roll Call

…you with us or you not

speak now or mumble on

& that’s what we’ll put in the song…
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#youwillnotkillmetoday (NPM2017 20)

Advertisements death will come on the day it wants dressed as it pleases at the time he chooses death will come of that there is little doubt how it will be received is the matter here #youwillnotkillmetoday with ignorance because … Continue reading

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Brick House Women (NPM2017 15)

Advertisements brick house women don’t dream God they dream of the ocean walking on water through fire of rising like mist over rivers overcoming with the sunrise standing up when the sun sets when they dream of falling they then dream … Continue reading

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in praise of memory(NPM2017 13)

Advertisements i remember to remember i remember born knowing i remember knowing before knowing i remember sankofa bird on my doorstep singing the ocean for me every step i take every breath i take wind and dirt instruct me i … Continue reading

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neither wolf nor sheep (NPM2017 11 )

Advertisements prophets are often thrown into the lion’s den not knowing true lions are friends to guerilla’s in your midst seeking higher paths upholding righteousness invested in the movement of the pendulum that signifies the moral arc go ask Daniel … Continue reading

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beyond capacity (NPM2017 9)

Advertisements there are places you may never see out beyond the end of the known past the safety nets where the air thins the ground is rocky there is no path all roads are uphill where life stretches you like … Continue reading

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crazy((NPM2017 # 8)

Advertisements some days you can see  crazy sitting cross the room grinning legs crossed nails polished bare assed naked crazy light shining from its good eye yeah you can smell the metallic burned copper smell of it running in blood … Continue reading

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brick house sunrise

Advertisements open the curtains in the brick house let the light spill in peeling back the dark illuminating broken things scattered like litter on the side of life the broken dolls games that glitch the only for this side of … Continue reading

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out of body (NPM2017 # 5)

Advertisements my body my black girl body has never been mine stands in need of reclamation is a site of oppression a battlefield to be conquered bartered criminalized minimized trivialized made a chariture masking your desire to consume the very … Continue reading

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black and white (NPM2017 # 4)

Advertisements imagine me as i am fiercely beautiful a black and white negative growing in the shade of contempt like a desert rose fragrant in the funk of it unbowed refusing to be broken being everything else and then some … Continue reading

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