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T.R. Black

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T.R. Black @teearrblack.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Struck by the titular poem in this collection. All the Possible Bodies by Iain Haley Pollock

Cover to -All the Possible Bodies, Poems” by Isin Haley Pollock. Title and subtitle are dark and camel brown respectively on white background in top half. Bottom half is grayish with author’s name in white above a photo of a sculpture - a human, right hand, palm up. A bent wire as if a hanging loop extends from the ‘severed’ wrist.

Poem.
ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES
My alcoholic grandfather couldn't hold his money & passed a bad check. Hampton / Virginia / after Brown v. Board but before Selma's Bloody Sunday. After my grandmother died but before he moved the family North / back to the town of his birth. My mother saw her father cuffed & dragged from the house. The next day / by some miracle she never understood / he came home.
Had he looked at the officers wrong / acted wrong / spoken wrong / been too familiar / been a few inches taller / been deeper voiced or darker skinned & for this had he caught a knee that night to the neck & not returned / perhaps my mother / needing to stay home & raise Aunt Joan & Uncle Keith / would have skipped college. Had she skipped college / perhaps she would not have gone for a Ph.D. Had she not gone for a Ph.D. / perhaps she would not have met my father. Had she not met my father / perhaps I would not be here / perhaps the boys sleeping upstairs from me now would not be here.

When you spend 8 minutes & 46 seconds / with your knee / on another man's neck /
you block not just the passage of air / into his body / but block air into all the possible bodies / dependent on that man / & his neck / to breathe / breathe / breathe / breathe / breathe-

Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Augur of circularity

Bird with skull head, tucked in the jaw lives a little mouse, don't forget the snail climbing up the branches

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“In the Trump administration’s latest move to limit trans rights, the Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, for admitting trans women.”

Smith College: Department of Education opens investigation into all-women’s college for admitting trans women | CNN

In the Trump administration’s latest attack on trans rights, the Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, for ...

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T.R. Black @teearrblack.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We remain A stain to you Indelible As the welts on our backs Are a cuneiform A hieroglyphics Of a story you cannot Look away From a tale you cannot Remove To a song you cannot

T.R. Black @teearrblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Pedro Iniguez@pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lot of new people here on Blue Sky! I made a robust Latinx Speculative Fiction Author Starter Pack! Check it out! Share and spread the word!

T.R. Black @teearrblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

How do you know you miss something When you’ve ignored it even exists When the thought of its absence Does not give you pause In the night Keeping you From sleep When you feel complete Surrounded by all The other Things …

T.R. Black @teearrblack.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is the first Moment I can Give you more Than you can Ever expect