solange & i are sisters in a parallel universe of posers
& so / it came to me / in the nude / colored / realization / of my blackness / that i must / emerge /
from the red sand / & leave my
footprints / down / by the river / where my mother almost drowned / slipping from a hanging tree
stump…
open your eyes, child / please / she said
you have / a black story / to tell
it comes / from your scalp
it is / in your eyes
it manifests / when you are rubbed together / like two rocks / & set to scorch / the earth