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1.0 And every rose raised the fist of her manifesto: sick folk need a rose.1.1 Make it a story problem: how many Black girls will fit in an average front yard?2.0 Standing alone in her backyard, a woman renames the constellations. Orion she calls Sojourner’s Truth. The Milky Way: Black Girl Sitting in a Saucer. The Big Dipper she tips, licks its dark rim, and hangs it back
I didn’t think he would show up, so I spared myself the disappointment by not telling him we were visiting. We would only be in town for four days, and I made plans with everyone I could, except him. After years and years of disappointment, you learn to bottle the resentment, the pain, the “why he don’t want me, man?” mantra and turn it into a trophy of sorts to remind
I pull the chicken meat from the bones, cube the meat, boil the bones to broth. I try not to think about our sixteen laying hens. How we called them by old-fashioned, feminine names. How we praised them every time we pulled a shit-sticky eggfrom under one of their feathery bums. It wasn’t until I saw the internal organs of a dissected bird—all those eggs clustered and
This test is open-book.This test is timed.Group work is not allowed. You are pregnant, which is a great surprise. You never expected to become pregnant, because [select one of the following] a. You’re a virgin b. You’re not a virgin, but your father thinks you are
In early spring, 1908, Ellis Island was so congested with ships from Europe & Asia,The steamer transporting my grandfather, alone & only fourteen, was diverted, reroutedTo a port in Galveston. A fairly common practice, born like most things out of laziness, Robotic immigration agents changed, for pronunciation ease, his name—from Komar To Cohen. If his portrait existed, it’d