Crossing Lines

Your husky voice drifting through the phone Coaxing Instructing Commanding My hands doing these things Running across my skin in your memory I can feel you Remember you here Me there Us doing Being Moans escaping from deep within me Laying back Opening wide Taking you in Pushing Stroking You took me there And here…

Do Over

There are moments I wish I would have been reckless in my youth Not so thoughtful A little less mature Should have partied all night, slept all day Moments I wish I would have been less committed to commitment Ok with making the wrong decisions Less focused on the right path Simply allowed life to…

Lorine Gray: This Time I Win

Happy to support my little cousin.

Goodbye Raheem

February 10, 1981 God granted permission for the skies to open and a world to change Raheem Kamil Chaney Her Big Boy They called him P-Dot Some simply said, “Yo Rah” For Raheem means merciful, kind, and compassionate On further breakdown he’s a servant And I can remember the look in your eyes when you spoke…

Beautiful Black Hair

Black hair is beautiful… I love everything about our hair, the texture, the way we’re able to style and decorate it and the endless looks we create with it. I love our hair! This is from the Hair Festival in Columbia this weekend.

My. Cousin, My Brother, My Friend…

I woke up this morning excited for many reasons. A dear friend is graduating this weekend, another will be in town for the occasion. I was ready to cook or be there as needed, whatever the case may be. And then I got a call from my mother. Some deaths come from the left and…