L Categories Poetry Maya Marshall Lavender Menace Adopts a Black Boy In summer black boy burns. Say, black boy takes shelter. Imagine summer camp. Black boy afloat in Lake Michigan. Black boy
L Categories Poetry Maya Marshall Lavender Menace Considers Adoption in the Trump Era I’m so American I close my ports / of nourishment with a bit of bread / a bourbon, a burrito bowl, a nipple / a penis. I take in and in like oceans
D Categories Poetry Maya Marshall Daddy on the Sofa The soft satellite of my father’s ear falls / toward his shoulder. / His chin floats up from his clavicle.
