yet, who would by his evidence send a brother to the gallows?
to enter us is not the only way to
know us;
1. we decolonize solid waste
to feel whole 2. we exist pre-dawn, black embryo in amnion
3. the sensation of fictional autonomy
or just, 4. some pleasant silence amongst the flowers
perhaps,
5. a memory pawn shop
6. water
7. melanin
8. bones & blood
we have 9. no names
10. full names
11. white names
12. rotting pith
we are not 13. joining wood
14. harvested to whet bowels
15. blood to be lapped & painted with
we want
16. the privilege of anticipation
17. a dark that is not the blackness
living
in our closed mouths