If she could, she would choose
to be the color of Yellow cosmos, French lavender,
Texas paintbrush (or a Shasta daisy at the very
least) : Anything but the color of pots
...
'The drug cocktails that have slashed the mortality rate of HIV-positive people in the U.S. and Western Europe are all but non-existent in Haiti. [O]nly 3 to 4 percent of people with AIDS [there] have access to the newest drugs.'
-The Chicago Tribune,2003
...
This is a place where when tomorrow's Easter Sunday & you ain't got no money, the barber tell ya Boy, you betta get up in this chair & don't even look at you funny
& y'all still listen to the Braves on that same A.M. radio he heard Hank break Babe record back in 1974
...
Love, I have fallen desperately
out of orbit, clutching only this blazing heart-
shaped chute. Even after you were the last
...