What you have inside of you must feel like black & dust
Temporary carrier of toes & fingernails forming in the red push
Feeding off your tissue, using your nutrition & making you swoon
Under the heavy air thick with pressure & dissent
Your family loosely hearing the echo of lost motherhood
You would have made such a terrible mother
If [...]
On June 20, 2008, I featured at Rapp Saloon, a reading at the hostel in Santa Monica, CA. I read six pieces: “Our love was powerful like a rap video…”, “O Grandmother, protect us & your memory…”, “What you have inside of you must feel like black & dust…”, “Rocks glass fragmenting into stars & [...]
Also tagged death, dust, lesbian, rap, video
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