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A Colored Girl Will Slice You If You Talk Wrong about Motown

The men and women who coupled, causing us, first arrived confounded. Surrounded by teetering towers of no, not now, and you shoulda known better, they cowered and built little boxes of Northern home, crammed themselves inside, feasted [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2012 | Comments : 0

Brown Girl Levitation, 1962-1989

Something sharper than any blade cuts the heavy roped balloon cord at the end of my wrists; ascension begins. No tingle of warning, just the thin, rising held-breath of a brown girl, super sudden lift, then, the instinctive dive & gr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle

Are you sure this blue is the same as the blue over there? This wall's like the bottom of a pool, its color I mean. I need a darker two-piece this summer, the kind with elastic at the waist so it actually fits. I can't find [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

A Young Girl Meets Rene Magritte

A bird flies through the sky above the ocean. Inside the small room, a giant green cup stands. Dinner is set up with an eye in the soup. A hungry man eats with four arms. A reflection of a man. A flash of light for a man&rs [...]

Posted On : Jun, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Girls’ Middle School Orchestra

They’re all dressed up in carmine floor-length velvet gowns, their upswirled hair festooned with matching ribbons: their fresh hopes and our fond hopes for them infuse this sort-of-music as if happiness could actually be [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Poem of the day Death of a little girl

The story of Shaniya Davis, the five-year old recently raped and killed in North Carolina, inspired me to post this poem today. The piece is about another girl taken before her time, but unlike Shaniya, this protagonist slips into a peacefu [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Girl

Baby Girl, Glamour Girl, Strawberry Girl struts Candy Girl, Sexy Girl, Bossy Girl fuss Gansta Girl, Dream Girl, Independent Girl shops Virtuous Girl, Glitter Girl, Hot Girl pops Cover Girl, Naughty Girl, Jazzy Girl sings Phat Girl, Ghe [...]