It’s April, and around this time I usually get a visit from an old friend–grief. A visit that I never looked forward to until now, I understand it now. I
Hey, hey, hey! You’ve reached the phenomenally favored and fantastic ______! It is her mantra every month. A cadence like
Japa – Migration (Noun) Origin: Yoruba, meaning ‘to run swiftly’ ‘to escape’ Translated from the Nigerian Urban Dictionary The year
It is a Saturday, and the sweltering Nigerian sun seems to have a point to
The VCR The day has come. Mama and Papa brung the box in the house.
“You were ashes.” As I stood in the doorway of my sister Everette’s bedroom just
I grew up in the heart of the Midwest during the 1970s, the era of
I don’t like the gloves the nurses leave here. They’re rubber and have powder on
For seven days straight, I’d dreamed of snapping green beans at my Nana’s feet, on
My favorite book as a child was The People Could Fly. I stared with fascination
Ukwangala kwachila ulupwa. Friendship surpasses family. Bemba proverb My sister came to me a few
“Wòch nan dlo pa konnen doulè wòch nan solèy.” The rock in the water cannot
Grandma. I always just referred to her as that without any qualifiers. I said Grandma
2011. The first boy I ever loved had dimples in both cheeks, a passion for
Sean is not you. Sean doesn’t drag me from bed at three in the morning,
Jesse arrives home an hour late. The humidity grips him as he climbs the four
The tap is leaking. I know this is not the first words I should say
“If y’all weren’t so difficult, maybe it’ll be easier to get a man.” “Y‘all? Difficult?”
