Shade Literary Arts

I want a swatch the color of trying to nap on the beach in August, sandwiches wedged between bottles in the cooler sand on the blanket ...

He enters you, hide him, a silver dollar beneath your pillow, in a pawn shop, lodged in your throat. Your birthmark will remind him of...

after Rihanna/ Future/ after Selfish in the circuit/ cities of men/ gazed over my curves/ now a lake glistens from your tongue/ it was...

Abstract: Throughout the course of contemporary Classics studies much scholarship has been done on the triumph of Theseus in his...

after Kiki Petrosino Everything is a horcrux if you sing hard enough. I whisper the empty, I could’ve rescued myself. Not just from...

In Taiwan the rain spits on my skin. I lose the way to my grandmother’s house, eat a papaya by the side of the road, papaya in Taiyu...

there are days when a flock of starlings are my gender and i am the sky there are days when my gender speaks in history and i plead it...

In the other universe I am white, skin bandaging my body. Always I’m born a wound. Look how I gape. Look how the skin is an afterthought....

To not accept a 'no' as a 'no' is a kind of violence or for her, a kind violence. She calls me 'baby' & just like that, my name & its...

mostly i’m ashamed to have forgotten that these niggas like to dabble in me. he came and i was reckless with my magic as if it were my...