‘Although bara is homonymous with rose, this is not a rose-rose incident.’
‘We were afraid to touch it – it looked cold enough / to burn us.’
‘the snow reflecting off / your torch was the / colour of your thoughts’
‘No I’m not tired I said. / No I’m not thirsty I said. / I’m sassy.’
‘We do it all day every day until we can’t see. / We do it with a belt between our teeth.’
‘child who dreams of growing into / a swan only to wake in terror at a mouth / filled with feathers.’
‘Behold the miracle of afro hair.’
‘I cannot look at you as I cannot look directly at the sun without my hand / covering my eyes’
‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’
‘I wanted to and then / Remembered why I want to never’
‘Love how unseen / we remain stood undressed in his field of vision.’
‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsistence’
‘Words are haunted. Think of it: as long as there have been soldiers there have been poets. I have often felt that being a poet is a form of civil disobedience.’
‘The contrast! − my angel face / against the camo.’
