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Grace

Grace

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Feb 28, 2022

Cruelty

(inspired by Lucille Clifton)

Grace

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Feb 28, 2022

A litany for living

(inspired by Audre Lorde)

Grace

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Dec 3, 2021

Witch

They always call powerful women born straight from the cosmos, created to heal and mend others witches.

Grace

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Dec 3, 2021

This Place of a Thousand Hills

This place of a thousand hills, this place of thousands of lives spilled, because someone drew lines, measured heights and noses, created…

Grace

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Dec 3, 2021

The Wall of Names

Imagine your sweet brother hacked in the head with a machete, skull splitting easy as a banana tree.

Grace

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Dec 3, 2021

grown men’s tears

grown men’s tears well, swell and fall in my presence like water beads bubbled up by salt sprinkled on courgette and aubergine, bleeding…

Grace

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Dec 3, 2021

white woman dreadlocks

I wonder what the white woman with hair half dreadlocked, half straight as a bone felt when the black poet told her she couldn’t have her…

Grace

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Dec 3, 2021

sage green dream

she’s been planning this day her whole life, poured her wedding dreams into sage green cream silk cushions, fairy lights, hay bales, real…

Grace

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Aug 28, 2021

dustbin man

I see the graceful swing of his smooth locs first, stretching like fingers down his muscled back;

Grace

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Aug 28, 2021

and the trees keep singing

I see an old black man walking slowly in a park and think — YES for you are used to forests leaves green, bright, fresh - no crispy…

Grace

Grace

Traveler, poet, educator, yogi, activist, artist, writer, British-Jamaican Londoner living in Ghana https://soundcloud.com/gracelouisewood

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