He is Taken Away
Black boy who lives up the street, who knows you?
Mystery deeper than the ebony tone of your skin,
darker than the coasts
of our backyards
disintegrating into nighttime bayous.
You duck
behind trees, and I count behind covered eyes
pretending I hadn’t glimpsed your abrasions
under the white hot stars. Scars on the back
of your shoulders
from the snap of a belt or the weight of carriers straps
and their loads.
“Take a piss and wash my hands/Take a knee and thank the man”
because you are alive.
Sober unlike Dad, willing unlike Ean, breathing unlike Mom.
Digging your grave to the deacons, you hang your glock at your side,
backseat of the G6. Eyes trained on red as Blood
and the safety clicks at 35, 20, 15 miles per hour.
Down the street, I knew you.
Fashion Rant 05/07
Don’t you just love hats? I do check out my earlier post! from a new spread in vogue. I have very recently created a Polyvore account where you put together sets and get feedback. however not getting much support. If anyone has an account with the site look up my username jazzyphaye1 and i’ll also post my sets on tumblr.
Does anyone have comments or news on whats hot? would love your feedback!
My First Blog
This is my first time ever blogging! I’m excited and nervous all at the same time. I was turned onto this blog site by a few friends. One of them happens to be a writer in one of my workshop classes, and she said her blog is where she is able to vent and get her inspiration. I want that for myself, however I have a certain aim for my posts. I plan to add some of my own pieces and discuss books I’ve read. I’ll talk about what inspires my writing and what literary themes I’m interested in. Right now I’m interested in YA literature, American Literature, and British Literature in my reading and in my writing, themes of adolescence, loss of innocence, and religion appear. As stated in my bio, I wish to major in English with a focus in publication and I hope to become a publishing agent or editor as a career. Hopefully I’ll get an internship with a publisher while I’m at GWU. Do my readers have any advice for how to obtain these goals??
With all of that said, I will not post my “sappy, heart felt, deep” poetry at nausea, but talk about other things as well. Because as stated so many previously, life is art and the world is our muse. I am also interested in fashion and clothes. I plan to check out my profile on Polyvore where designers and student publish sets and outfits and get feedback from their followers and other members of the site.
I think that’s all I have to say for now! Much love to all who follow me, and I intend to express support to everyone I follow as well. ‘Til next time! Mwa <3
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
