by Desree | Nov 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Lifesaving practice We make a strange creature, him and I. Father and son, endlessly enacting death and resurrection in the local pool. Locked in an awkward embrace, my back forever to his front. My heart balancing on his heart; smooth wet pebble...
by Desree | Nov 21, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
morphine the first time i drank morphine a weight slid over my heart & the whole summer collapsed under me my head packed with ice phone overflowing with garbled texts & all because of this vertebra a firecracker in a...
by Desree | Oct 31, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
“GOTHS AREN’T BLACK” BUT YOU’D STARE ANYWAY, AND I CAN SMOKE TREE BOP ON THE CORNER TO BLACK METAL OR BASHMENT, IN PLATFORM BOOTS OR NIKE BLAZERS BECAUSE I AM STILL THE ONLY SPECTACLE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. IT IS BRAIDS KNOTTED INTO NOOSES,...
by Desree | Oct 30, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Man-Made For the victims and survivors of male violence and the system that enables it. CW: rape, sexual violence, police brutality, genocide, racism. Raised by West Indian matriarchs I was taught by Black women about whiteness and patriarchy where women...
by Desree | Oct 29, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Blessing at Arms’ Length a setting-down ritual I can’t begin to speak a blessing any more than I can reach a coat hanger from my chair. I only know how to say come in, welcome, dear Brigantia, into the home of my hand, my heart, my...
