My daughter is black. Skin like turned earth. Eyes the color of midnight. A black freckle on the underside of her wrist…
Tzynya Pinchback
Tzynya Pinchback is author of the poetry chapbook How to Make Pink Confetti (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her recent work has appeared in The American Poetry Journal, the Aurorean, and Spectrum’s 17 Poets on 2017. Tzynya lives in a seaside cottage and blogs about mermaids and surviving cancer at www.tzynyapinchback.com.