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The Black Ordinary Zine
Issue 1
2025
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Whitney Houston VERSUZ Luther Vandross, August 32, 2020
"He had a lot of lady fans and he told me he just didn't want to upset the world" -- Patti Labelle
BEHIND THE TUMBLEWEAVE: A DOCU-SERIES
somewhere in North Philly there’s a Senegalese twist in a throuple with a cigarette butt & a leaf’s crunch.
Hold Your Applause
we don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no golf clap,
pull up to da graduation twenty deep
Hattie Rothwell Watches Her Son on the Ranch
He drags, by tred-pale rope knotted around her belly, the heifer across the dirt.
Rothwell Ranch, 1912
mama used to say every time
the weather was cool and cloudless
The Poet Visits the Dearfield Archives at the Denver Public Library
Summer has pulled, with its hands harsh as a playground bully, the silk from my press.
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