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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