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Category: Poetry
Puto
Be me. Brown kid called Black or Black called brown, growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Be me. Eating Puto. What did you say? Puto. I said I … Continue reading Puto
Brazo de Mercedes
your arms are soft as sea foam yet strong enough to lift balikbayan boxes onto airplanes, trains, buses your arms are sweeter than sin yet saltier than saline drops on … Continue reading Brazo de Mercedes
Poetic Form: Anaphora
Anaphora is the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases Anaphora comes from the Greek word for “carrying up or back” Anaphora is the repetition … Continue reading Poetic Form: Anaphora
Hands
hands thin as spider legs stronger than steel trace draconic runes across my skin igniting vessels of blood as I lay alone in the dark
Poetic Form: Blackout Poem
A Blackout Poem is a type of found poem (to be discussed later) that is created by taking a piece of text, say a newspaper article or a page from … Continue reading Poetic Form: Blackout Poem
Toxic Poem
There once was a dragon who wrote many tales and poems of note she hid them away among toxic decay for a knight with the antidote.
Poetic Form: Acrostic
A letter in each line Can be used to parsh out Reasonable words and phrases Only if the letters used Start at the beginning Thus forming a vertical Informal riddle … Continue reading Poetic Form: Acrostic
What the fuck is this shit?
I see streets of gray, gray buildings too. I see them grow around me and you. And I think to myself: What the fuck is this shit? I see skies of … Continue reading What the fuck is this shit?
What You Leave, What I Keep
You left concave shapes scattered around the house molds filing up with my tears. I keep fine fibers of you – hair strands, sock lint, dust -warm in my pocket.
The Literary Dragon 