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Laura Pegram
April 30, 2020

How I End by Vanessa Diaz

Laura Pegram
April 30, 2020
How I End by Vanessa Diaz

When / Borges went blind / he could still see / green. I’m not anyone / like Borges. I just need / a proximity to a similar / grief.

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Laura Pegram
April 30, 2020

Serpentskirt by Vanessa Diaz

Laura Pegram
April 30, 2020
Serpentskirt by Vanessa Diaz

Our mothers endure the shit of hours. / It’s their ultimate needful / sacrifices that make this city so hard to live in.

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Laura Pegram
April 30, 2020

Clear by BeeLyn Naihiwet

Laura Pegram
April 30, 2020
Clear by BeeLyn Naihiwet

In the middle of dinner my little sister reports / her first day of kindergarten was fun except / for the teacher who gave her a brown / crayon to draw a self-portrait." / I said to her, ‘I'm not brown, I'm Black’" Roza says, / adding, "She didn't even know that!" 

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Laura Pegram
April 30, 2020

My Mother The Lunch Lady by Cynthia Parker-Ohene

Laura Pegram
April 30, 2020
My Mother The Lunch Lady by Cynthia Parker-Ohene

She labors for the / small coins, to use her blackbody as surrogate for / elevated white women, who insist she nourish what their whiteness has wrought.

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