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Everyday some brown

Share After Kara Walker’s “Blue,” 2020 Everyday some brown woman pools into inky blue, a madness that crawls up from the floor of her and flows out all around. I should know, for months swallowed in the bruise of myself reaching to hold my hand. The sun continues to brush orange light intermittently everywhere despite the intimate annihilations, this weeping sea. There are mornings I wake and wonder, why? Later, wandering the walkways, in search of something to fill the hole in me, I see a fairy princess floating by, her mother cross-legged with a cardboard sign saying, Help me feed my childre

Everyday around the world a woman is pulled into… | Poetry Magazine

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