Side Notes | Camille Clark

                                ____________________________________________________________________ Milwaukee, 1968 Say it loud! I’m black and I’m proud                                                 —James Brown I was there the day black stopped being the worst thing you could call somebody. Right on 16th Street between Friebrantz and Olive. The day…

dreaming ending nonthreatening revenge like love exists to end the torment again no one remembers who I was neither do I it’s safest this way uncontainable reversible delightful a rupture inside a dream who knows your name and rivets you into the future with a music soundtrack and a cape it’s you or was like…

I am standing in the madness swirl of the rest of the universe All I had to do was open my mind Listen to leaf whispers find the tallest place Breathe in. The post Galaxy | Tandem appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online

From the new issue of The Common: Rhode Island is Famous for You for Denise Duhamel The blue forest, chilled and blue, like the lips of the dead, show life when brought to the public eye in June, the month of twins who divide their lives in two or spend hours pursuing the ghost of…

I haven’t seen my friend Anne in a while. My parents say sad things that don’t make sense, “Her dad will never walk her down the aisle,” And now they talk about her in past tense. We dress in black and all get in the car, It coughs to life and then we’re on our…