above: “Locked” and Loaded/ or this is how two sistas poetically build!

FOR RICHARD WRIGHT

by: D. Noble

how many suns have you sonned

brilliant source of how beautiful

and ugly black can be

your pen knows no fear

your words, reckless and precise

black flesh violently split wide

course language scrapes scabs off

authentic manuscripts gush from open wounds

flesh of my flesh

you dare to know me, understand me- challenge my black face

how many suns have you sonned

violently split open

we emerge

screaming from your womb of words

12 million black voices

beautiful and confused black boys, your native sons

Jack & Jill 

Train up a child in the he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

      - Proverbs 22:6

black babies born beautiful

full of light and verve

grow

to be colin and condi colored corpses

colonized in colleges

less they seek…

niggas first