Poetry

Catapult | Poetry
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies

if you believe me to be your enemy know this I accept

Jan 5, 2021
Catapult Alumni | Poetry
A Sigh of Survival…So Far

A poem for New Years 2021.

Jan 1, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
First Nude

How to put this: I’m alive.

Dec 14, 2020
Catapult | Poetry
Choose Your Quarantine House (I – IV)

under the dark sitting pretty / on the patch of hardwood floor / where confession / and callousness meet

Dec 2, 2020
Catapult | Poetry
Reimagining Light

The water flows through hollow bones and returns / as a song. It sounds familiar in the beginning / Then always changes.

Nov 2, 2020
Catapult | Poetry
Corrective State

The people behind bars are captives of war /
The people stolen into camps and cages /
speak it plain

Oct 26, 2020
Catapult | Poetry
Shivering in the Summertime

some days my own womb shivers at the thought of / my black ass children being thrown / against any wall

Oct 19, 2020
Catapult | Poetry
the faggotry

the ones you call those frickin’ Ayrabs, the ones / who hold hands with / kiss cheeks with those they call / habibi & isn’t every habibi is a mis/-translation of? habibi

Oct 14, 2020
Catapult | Poetry
Love Me A Man Who Cries

I claw / against the syrup to love other men / for whom, bless them, a bird is just / a bird.

Oct 5, 2020
Catapult Alumni | Poetry
A brand new world

My insensitive mother once said “those who lose one sense, develop another” What use is my acute sense of smell, except in a fire? Metal scrapyard voice of the Windows screen readerReminds me of the clanky transition,I wish, wasn’t mine.I fish for treasures in all that white trashy polyphonic noiseuntil my head bursts.Conquer JAWS or […]

Sep 23, 2020