I asked my mother why she named me "Eric" and she says by Eric Morales-Franceschini

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November 15, 2020

I asked my mother why she named me "Eric" and she says by Eric Morales-Franceschini

maybe I hoped you’d be a Viking / hair lustfully blonde / with skin every color except spic / an / impossibly tall and husky boricua / in whose hands would be anything but a machete / anything but this island’s smallness

Laura Pegram

November 15, 2020

Indigofera by Jasmine Elizabeth Smith

Laura Pegram

November 15, 2020

I want the Indica color built up / plantations from swamp lands—/ for my hands to be blued / in vats of boiled water cuffed to yards / of anil steeped cloths.

Laura Pegram

August 31, 2020

Pan 2010 by Kara Stewart

Laura Pegram

August 31, 2020

Kara Stewart (Sapony) is a Reading Specialist and Literacy Interventionist in the North Carolina Public Schools. Her photography, found at Kara Stewart, Art in Photography encompasses a broad range of styles from abstract to macro, and topics from Native to nature, rural to urban.

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