Welcome to Litsy!

”who pushed you into the world so bent? who sent you here so broken?”

#blacklitsy #21ninety #poetry

"as if the world your shaking creates has no populated underside. as if the lies you tell yourself don‘t run and hide right in our faces."
-"How We Know"

"once the sky was low. you could taste stars singeing your hair you if you walked around unthinking. once black holes were a literal liability for the living absentminded. once the ancestor stars were not just nightlights to wish upon. they were warnings saying mind your direction. you might get burnt."
-"How We Know"

"she loved the soft blue ocean of wishing he would die. burying it in the heavy oats. she imagined the blue of her own bruises spreading daily on his insides until his muscles could not take it and his bones grew weak and bent. she wrote vitamin hate in his breakfast. receipt for how her life was spent."
-"How She Spelled It"

"a framed family picture is a phantom. it is a fountain of glass to cut her now. all this time believing that glass is water gets caught in her throat like the sanded-down future of what it is possible to say. she is so smooth now. disabused of how what is was supposed to look like."
-"How She Spelled It"

One of my mentors in my head was honored for #NationalPoetryMonth. Check out the whole poem here: http://bit.ly/2oF0z7d

My favorite line~"most would not connect the floorboards of her porch to the roots that they remember when she sits"

#blackfeminist #blackwomen #feminism #poetry

The fierce music in these poems reflect their content, Gumbs has the gift of turning ordinary language into resonate, stunning verse. Each piece radiates with depth of knowledge but immediately entices you with is song. #poetry

from Where She Ended Up

"i am wrong."

Queer Black troublemaker & Black feminist love evangelist presents a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive black women & girls seeking freedom from gendered violence & racism.