Early in the first part of his recent book, The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing to his former students at Howard University, reflects on what made this particular cohort and their relationship with him special, honing in on Howard’s importance as …
Walking along the river’s edge, The water level low this year The receded river reveals . A lifetime’s worth of accumulated Garbage. A bicycle straddles A burned out, gutted blue . Sofa, spilling its soggy innards To a sun close …
Three sisters Sit in judgment- Darkly, mutely on the mesa, Apportioned their appointed part In the cosmic monotony. . A man is shot dead On ancestral lands (now “Ran” by the national park service) praying to The four directions, hand …