On gathering

Rain pitter patter

Yellow streetlights dancing everywhere 

A car hits his blackness

Fine dust unfiltered 

Prosceniums hung 

An obsidian teardrop goes 

What do you mean 

A toupee 

She binds her t-shirt shut 

Bloated -- 

Salty self-fragilization

For the hatred of photo-graphy 

Summer heat 

Bodyglow 

The flicker of a moth’s whiskers

Afros big 

Paintbrushes 

I thought it was something else 

Twilight still 

zero 

A door swings perfectly closed 

Heartbeat loud 

Desire made errantry 

Something rustles the only tree 

Deeper 

And deeper still 

You were death by ocean kiss 

At dusk

a column of light floods in

His black skin, deadly

Years apart 

White folks in the unknown 

The baker, watches