unfinished business, unlived life,
lovely body unknown
for eighty years and four
she peered through the glass
but one cold night
when warmth was stacked in the room
her window died
and at the cremation
eyes for a second woke
but could not ask
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
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