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Category: Poetry

The Potomac: “hanging is not an option”

August 4, 2016August 4, 2016Leave a comment

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i can too easily see myself in sepia—
toes reaching for the dirt,
empty eyes reflecting the sun,
my neck stretched out to greet heaven—
i’ve never been taller.

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District Lit: “we and the metro”

August 4, 2016August 4, 2016Leave a comment

district lit

—a neighborhood where his father had calloused his soles
on unpaved boulevards,
closed off from the world by Southern mentality.
the train had brought us back downtown,
a re-claim staked at center court.

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The Voices Project: “On Thin Ice”

June 24, 2016June 24, 2016Leave a comment

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The maze of your friends
and their thoughts
must’ve seemed inconquerable then:
it was all too clear how we would crack,

Check out my poem at The Voices Project!

The Fem: “Κατρίνα”

May 8, 2016February 12, 2019Leave a comment

https://thefemlitmagazine.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1-virgil-saunders/

Check out my poem at The Fem!

The Voices Project: “Montreal”

May 8, 2016February 12, 2019Leave a comment

http://www.thevoicesproject.org/poetry-library/montreal-by-virgil-saunders

I must’ve dug in too deep,
dug my nails in until my heart bled
and stained all over your white.

Check out my poem at The Voices Project!

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