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Hi-Q: summmmermmer

** inspired by this piece: you call that poetry?! as a minimal poem

we are living in a simulation, just of our own making reality is constructed by your brain

HiQ: wildflowers sway

the beauty just off the shoulder claustrophobia in broad dayliGht black victims look gagged by roya marsh

Hi-Q: hints of appalachia

quilt squares amongst the barn wood trees by johnny cash

why don't we all do as we say and not as we do? "how in the world can you possibly begin to categorize the people of a community whom you do not know at...

Hi-Q: counting masks

the anxiety of sustenance procurement heartbreaking

Hi-Q: intruding leaves

the return after neglect listen

bringing the outdoors in via inner ear kamau brathwaite reading negus the full reading poem talk podcast discussing negus

a moist embrace upon opening the door california poem by johnny cash

Hi-Q: it's tuesday!

firefly season is also firework season apparently cry… by eile nitzel mena

Hi-Q: memory/promise

winged sparks or sky static summer fluoresces when i think of tamir rice while driving by reginald dwayne betts

Hi-Q: droplet + leaves

the true season of red and green tomato sunset sonnet by edna st. vincent millay

Hi-Q: solstice serenade

the weird will walk and senses wander keep walking weird

Hi-Q: firefly blinks

shorting beacon of summer the season of freedom? if we must die by claude mckay

Hi-Q: morning still

monochrome sky backgrounds the stillness listening for the opposite of still

Hi-Q: squirrel's path

each step a multitude of drops on the leaves below be bold by being simple

Hi-Q: faux fall

we need not wait for a fall to signal change vote

Hi-Q: crow hopping

the nostalgia for normalcy a regression tired by langston hughes

Hi-Q: bird loop

a startling welcome surprise of the natural #birdingwhileblack birding while black

they say the past repeats but when will it relinquish its hold and let us progress? a man was lynched the other day

a willful dismissal and showing of true colors

Hi-Q: squash skin

harvesting bluster like a slug trail

Hi-Q: one nation

we the people cannot be trusted

Hi-Q: southern heat

sun baked sweetness and salty rivulets

Hi-Q: leaves of grass

the sum is only greater than the parts when all parts are included

Hi-Q: jarred close

moral cleansing blake was right

the language of division a pandemic

what is great again?

Hi-Q: division=subtraction

united we kneel

Hi-Q: do not drink

thirst cannot be quenched by absence i’ve been writing some longer form pieces, mostly stream of consciousness style, and don’t know what to do with them....

Hi-Q: tectonic plates

it is time for mountains to crumble and maps to be redrawn

if we know where/how things lie can we improve them?

Hi-Q: opposites

the fallacy of binary in a multitudinous world

Hi-Q: money money money

"I'm out for dead presidents to represent me" -Nas

Hi-Q: congestion

heavy air and breath half as far twice as hard

Hi-Q: unfamiliar shade

stereotypical sky blue seen as fleeting as the tomato bloom

Hi-Q: stuck inside

flowers in a bottle capturing nature

Hi-Q: overgrown shoulder

long grass seems to glow under rain-promising sky

Hi-Q: before the rain

rolling away as the clouds roll in

Hi-Q: afternoon storm

pop-up presaged by diminishing percentages

Hi-Q: earthworms

underworld dwellers explorers of the unknown

the verdant weight of cleansing clear sky breath

plants bloomed and bearing fallen rootless

saturated even the creeks have rapids

Hi-Q: psychedelic trees

the digestion of time in technicolor monochrome

Hi-Q: gilded morning

sunshine scattered by falling prisms

Hi-Q: darkening clouds

preparing for the winds to change enjoying the breeze

Hi-Q: small shrew

still rodent the period of a question mark

Hi-Q: dusty passport

surfing the airwaves across borders and boundaries

Hi-Q: growth pruned

nature meets nurture via subtraction