Skin Tone
“I’m interested in the skin as a narrative for people to explore,” she says. “I honestly believe skin is a geography that we explore. Each skin is different, even if it’s in the same race.”
I am in the most beautiful place I could imagine.
Exactly where I wanted to be.
A place that not many young people consider to be pressurizing, but I feel it. No job, no friends and a drive to get into the digital field.
Portland, here I am.
Love Song For J. Brenda Hammond
when I watch you I stand up through your destruction
wrapped up like garbage
sitting, surrounded by the smell
of too old potato peels
or
when I watch you
in your old man’s shoes
with the little toe cut out
sitting, waiting for your mind
like next week’s grocery
I say
when I watch you
you wet brown bag of a woman
who used to be the best looking gal in Georgia
used to be called the Georgia Rose
I stand up
-Lucille Clifton
“Miss Rosie”
