by K. E. Lewis | Aug 7, 2023 | Poetry & Essays
A personal essay exploring my relationship to language, but particularly how I came to know poetry I cannot fully explain how I fell in love with the art of or the technique of, but the relationship I have with poetry seems to be one of great strength and of an even...
by K. E. Lewis | Aug 7, 2023 | Poetry & Essays
Dribble the ball.Make it fast.Shoot the shot.Catch the pass.Savor joy.Make it last.Grab the book.Off to...
by K. E. Lewis | Aug 7, 2023 | Poetry & Essays
The water goes loop-dee-loopby the sandy shore,knocks on our castleand protests it.We were a long time building,a long long time.But there goes baby sister— clueless,flipping in the...
by K. E. Lewis | Aug 7, 2023 | Poetry & Essays
Daddy wanted steak for dinner.Momma wanted fish.And once they started arguingIt sounded quite like this: “I don’t want no fish, we’d faint in here,and fish stinks up the house.””Well ‘less you got money for rent and steak,Mr. Randall will put...
by K. E. Lewis | Aug 7, 2023 | Poetry & Essays
like my big-armedgrandmother,seated in her chair,scanning all her children, remembering the days she kepttheir faces neat, their chicken fried,bandaging their cuts, and ushering them through the forever dark, attending ceremonies and graduations on findingIt’s a boy...
by K. E. Lewis | Aug 7, 2023 | Poetry & Essays
We sit herethigh to thighin the lap ofthis impossibleBlack christmasmy mother and sister-mothers to my rightmy father five yearsflown somewherein a sanctuaryof souls We joke and laughabout him fondlinghis gray-less goateeloving on mirrorsbeing filled withjolly...
