Douglas Kearney
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for Deshawn, Eric, Dallas, Jerome & Lerone
We brown boys
play
stick games,
...
Picture the upturned millipede, dead,
and see the streets of Altadena:
palm tree rows against the concrete, stiff
...
The jolt that comes to bones inside a tumbled streetcar
is what the painter considers as she strokes her-
self into story. There is less to the jolt that
...
there was a remember when the mama was my girl
the mama was in my girl biding to turn
...
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Douglas Kearney is an American poet. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts, with an MFA. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Nocturnes, Jubilat, Gulf Coast. He teaches at California Institute of the Arts.)
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Alameda Street
for Deshawn, Eric, Dallas, Jerome & Lerone
We brown boys
play
stick games,
say
nicknames
like BIG D, EVIL E;
and conjure Knievel
with jigsawed dirt bikes
and sewer curbs
for asphalt launch pads.
We all sweat
to know flight
for just
a minute.
We brown boys,
hair
all knaps,
wear
ballcaps'
broken brims. Broken rims
from hungry slamdunks,
pro-ball pipe dreams
over ice cream man's
"Pop Goes the Weasel."
We all hunt
change from cords',
Bermudas
and mamas.
We brown boys—
smack
talking
slap
boxing—
stay bragging and bagging,
drinking summer from hoses
and water bomb barrages.
We throw rocks at garages
making no dents.
We all just
trying to leave
a mark.
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