by Desree | Oct 27, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Jobcentre Blues The nights are full of broken sky sirens– of 2,000 stabbings and sexless promises– of hot dog food-banks, and either coffee or tea or pasta or rice. Do you have a cooker or a microwave sir? No, I sold it in that withering...
by Desree | Oct 26, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Winter Blossom Does your laughter feel like winter blossom? A fog of petals in your lungs, forcing joy a season too soon. I don’t know the taste of your grief. Maybe it is a damaged earth, the world offbeat and threatening. But in this...
by Desree | Oct 25, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
and we sing ‘this place ain’t for you anymore, anymore even air moves different from before, from before’ *humming* my work aunt once told me about this crowd that arrived. took homes and changed streets left people;...
by Desree | Oct 24, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Apex Black woman, apex Thighs and mind of thunder Grounded, solid Catches me in her stratospheric eyeline in the future sight of higher love. The mountainous everything of her So bright I can barely behold. I hide in the shade of her lashes...
by Desree | Oct 23, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Martin Luther King Jr’s on tour in the UK to repeat the same speech, you’ve heard but never remembered word for word. And why should you? I have a dream is painted onto enough t-shirts and baseball caps for you to get the gist. School...
by Desree | Oct 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
It didn’t make me a woman darkened school skirt pleats the pungent smell of loss this initiation a twelve year olds guide to becoming ashamed it didn’t make me weak they...
