There’s the animal and its flesh. At times interchangeable, but not quite the same. Anglo-Saxon named the beasts, French their meat At death do…

Sweet Brötchen, swathed in dishcloth- layered baskets, the call of your brethren is deafening. In every bakery they coo with the fragrance of burnt…

Under leaf and footfall, in the alley’s otherwise quiet, Rat smelled the divine sweat-reek of a corner-bistro bag. [Rat…

I bought a Zinger at that bodega over there, and I swore, still swear, after I thanked him, the salesman said, “I love you.”…

Sebastian’s garlic sour-pickle muse floats down in little hours, when he’s mute…

I. my fiance is 29. in an effort to make sure we live a long life together, she got me …

There is a coarseness to the English language that makes it almost unpalatable for African tongues. These words make us cough up the bones…

Grandmothers, Ancestors, Orishas, Most High God, please help me read the shells of my fractured lineage to know from whence i/we come The answers…

I need a man willing to split an appetizer a man who takes a stance on condiments just a thin spread man is not…

But you don’t have an accent I’m told repeatedly by urban speech even in feeling or tone sometimes too reflective of my own sound…