Author: admin

when I come over
and you have lit candles
all around your bedroom
I ask if there has been a blackout
you say it’s just because you knew I was coming

We breathe in faith like the
cool scent of vanilla flowers
on our skin.

To those whom our culture erases on sight…
Live. Love. Resist. Fight.
We are not a minority,
But rather the future bright.

The sun was out and shone broadly
begging squirrels to come out to play
with the birds who were taunting each other

But when a foothold can’t be found,
a trellis will do. And so I ripped
a dozen cedar strips to build a ladder

Boys in Houston junior high schools in the spring of 1945
Wore brightly colored socks as a fad, thick woolly socks
In popsicle colors: lemon yellow, lime green, orange