two honks and he is risen
in the living room from a couch more comfortable than you’d expect.
she cascades across the street in an ivory bathrobe
playing in the sunshine like a new year’s day float.
through the open front door on it comes :
the scent of morning glory on the breeze.
a row of drumsticks itching to be bbq’d
sunbathing in the window— thaw.
blinds cracked, do the dishes, vacuum the floor, brew the coffee;
skillet, eggs, sausage : home.
Hailing from South Central, Los Angeles, Tauwan Patterson is a Black + Queer Poet and recent graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. His work has appeared in online literary magazines Cool Beans Lit, 3rd Wednesday Magazine, Muse-Pie Press’ Shot Glass Issue #41, the Rising Phoenix Review, The Amazine, University of Baltimore’s Welter Literary Journal, and JMWW, and will also appear in the forthcoming Moonstone Arts Center anthology Which Side Are You On?!, With his poetry Tauwan aims to, in the words of the great Poet and Thinker Marcus Jackson, announce his freedom and presence. Making a sound that echoes in the end that says Tauwan Patterson. No more. No less.
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