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nyeusiphile. black spec poet & visual artist. forever a louisville kid in lexington; THE SECOND STOP IS JUPITER (2023) your refusal to laud me vexes me.
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cropped page of handwritten text: welcome to the circle. my philosopher's stone at age 6 was a ball of foil. i still have it. it still possesses me. ‐ me.
the werewolf with the rose tartoo is hiding up the holler and has my hand in her mouth covered in hiney & writing poems. elsewhere here i sit... howling at broken vases.
sketching and notes for an ekphrastic poem based on a romare bearden collage.
how do you inherit another man's scent, carrying Rother into rapture? to be rebuked as his doppelganger at the pearly gates! i love my daddy. he almost resembles a good man / he worked hard ate full drank long and laughed at your expense... i love my father.
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"the greek spoof zeus, nubia's eldest living parrot" — 😄

cropped handwritten text for The Library of Conjure
she rubs her saxophone three times and john coltrane pops out / a blue poof in lightning bolts and wolf-eyes-in-the-dark trailing behind him... like the greek spoof zeus, nubia's eldest living parrot.
handwritten definition of sobriquet: a nickname not a pseudonym. and a list of examples: the big apple, biggie smalls, lady day, the big easy, and others
stops and starts of a poem...

ode to my daughter's daughter 

never stop floating on flowers, zari
your head full of language that glows, dont hide your shadows
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@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
nyeusiphile. black spec poet & visual artist. forever a louisville kid in lexington; THE SECOND STOP IS JUPITER (2023) your refusal to laud me vexes me.
2.3k followers1k following11k posts