Soul – Party of Two Called destiny by some birthright by others inherent to our coil  imbedded complication our situation is sealed time capsule ready for future generations they’ll need to know how we blew it the need to rest on our misses gives those who watch in the skies a...

Shakeema Smalls is a writer and  graduating senior at Howard University in Washington, DC, where she is the managing Editor of Amistad Literary Journal. She has had poems featured in Tidal Basin Review and Phatitude Literary Journal. I’ve  read everything. I can’t lie, I love...

I Would Write You Poetry I would write you poetry, But you’d just say you don’t get it And make me feel adolescent and silly. I would sing you a song, But you’d look away as if my efforts are Null and void Despite the soul and tranquility of my Voice. I’d compose a...

Mother Washington These fans ain’t doing nothin’ I tell you. My goodness, these church fans is the pits. But I’mma sit right here and listen to what these young mens got ta say. The young girl next to me fannin’ that fan pretty hard, bless her soul. I know she tryin’ to give me some...

I was raised as a Sabbatian which means from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset no cooking, cleaning or watching televesion was allowed. If I wasn’t at church I would sneak in my room and turn on my square TV with the antenna pulled up high and watch “The Soul Train“! I can...

ONENESS I taste  your words When they leave your mouth I hear the words That do not speak I smell of your sweetness When you have gone I enjoy the touch Of your hand upon mine. When you’re not here Shall I not also See you in my dreams And as we merge together Absorbing each...

…this man would be the one to make her remember to say…“Yes, please and thank you.”  YES… PLEASE… by Deidre Jordan Despite the store’s discrete name, her anxiety was ascending as she pulled into the front parking lot. Her worst fear was to see someone she...

Black History Month from this white guy’s perspective… Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. (March 4, 1877 – August 27, 1963) was an inventor who invented a type of respiratory protective hood (conceptually similar to modern gas masks), a type of traffic signal, and a...

Fuck You Very Much by: Deidre Jordan “Hello… I just want the opportunity to say FUCK YOU very much! I probably shouldn’t give you the satisfaction of this phone call. But you should know that it is not right to treat good people the way you have treated me. I am kind and...

One voice mail, that’s what popped on the screen of my Iphone. “Call me, Octavia has herpes.” That was the message left by my best friend Jean. I was sitting in the driveway in my 20 year old Mercedes, I pressed the green call back button. “Hey Hun, so sorry to hear that, seems...

The Razor  “Mom can you buy me a razor!” “For what Mal?” “Mom, I have too much hair down there, can you just buy it.” Yeah, I guess. Why can’t you just use scissors. Why do I have to buy you a razor? “Mom I don’t want to use scissors, and do you think you can show...