The extremes of who, what I am DNA, culturally, nature/nurture all fun to puzzle piece together What my forebearers did, what was done to them, is historically recorded, reported, unresolved My detective skills sharpened with time, experience, dumb luck can be broken down precisely: Having…

Here I am alone again. Chasing the moon in the wee hours Writing poetry by parking lot lights Romanticizing the mundane and finding profundity in banality. Wishing on stars- though my star wishes have never come true. Tapping out these words And wishing I were…

There’s dead grass growing all over my body as i annihilate another day in the shower, the water Drips off my chin into the rotis i make. I think of myself as a shop owner, a service provider to a variety of people in need. Paid…