Outwrite 2023: Editor’s Poetry Selections
metroweekly.comBird’s-Eye View: A PsalmBy Brandon BlueThis I know, this I’m certain of: watching a sparrow kill and eat another (bird now full of bird)— and fly away unbothered while blood left on the sidewalk seeps like libation bringing about a new spring; poppies and dandelions bagged and sold in neighborhoods to teach lessons of superiority: Men over Women over Queers.
Whose lives matter? Black men decideleaving cars. Our skin is not different, yet you chose to choose like them. The wind’s patterns direct with unyielding certainty.T Shot #5: Ode to My Sharps ContainerBy KB BrookinsHolder of loose blood.
Taker of contraptions I use when I’m brave enough to save myself. Visual reminder that I can do it. Former container of pickles so you smell like sour victory.
Glass house of my gender. Chest hair–maker. Every interaction at the coffee shop, on the phone with medical providers, every nervous laughter after checking the sex on my ID comes down to you.
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