Sister & I sat together in the grass--the only Indians surrounded by white settlers. / The games were over pretty quick. The Land Run too. They’ll send us home early. / No one knows what to do with us. The kid with a fake monocle won the costume contest. / One of dad’s friends on the school board said our costumes & teepee were most original.
clock out before you hit 25. don't drive my labor up by Shakeema Smalls
one-sided conversations with my mother by ire'ne lara silva
Grandpa's War: An Anthem by Cortney Lamar Charleston
I’m sitting at this kitchen table, talking / to my father’s father. His tongue tends to get stuck on the / same stories like the trigger of a jammed carbine, coughing on / things that should’ve passed through like the shape of a life / through wall, but no. His stories bleed together: comrades / fallen in a field far from home. I have their dog tags in pocket, / but I play audience anyway.