Poetry
Winter 1994
In the Small Rooms
Under the big house, above the pool, surrounded by flowers, to the side of the sea on a bed in a room that I share with my brother is an […]
Poetry
Winter 1994
Dream
You come back from the evil where you’ve been so long living and dying in a crusty, tired voice, come back to hold me and tell me good-bye in the […]
Poetry
Winter 1994
Haircut
I get off the IRT in front of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture after riding an early Amtrak from Philly to get a haircut at what used […]
Poetry: Dramatic Voices
Spring 1993
Josephine Baker: Two Poems
Diva Studies What is original, what is facsimile? The boys in the dressing room are showing me how to skin my hair down flat like patent leather, black as that. […]