WriTing, ResEarching & CreAting.
A conner. A carving.
Crafted out a crack
Stiffening and gliding
Hoisting and bending.
A pleasant interruption;
hang within the break.
Dirt Excerpts
"Dem go hear; pansa pansa" ~ (Fela Kuti, 1992)
Speculative flash fiction (prose poems) inspired by indigenous resistance to hyper imperialism; a critical dialogue on race and geography.
Pharmakon
"...if we center the perspective of these enslaved Africans and contemplate that they had their own home cultures with their own systems of justice, brought with them from Africa, we might rephrase: These Africans convened and judged Corbin’s conduct, sentenced him to death, and likely executed him." ~ (Anon, 2022)
FLASH FICTION
Portrait
"The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonialist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession...The colonialist is aware of this as he catches the furtive glance, and constantly on his guard, realizes bitterly that: 'They want to take our place'." ~ (Fanon, 1963)
PROSE POEM
Writing from Place
"There is a necessity to dissolve and dismantle the thermodynamic arrow of time and the arrow of progress"~ (Phillips, 2017.)
Speculative short stories written and curated in space, turning place, critically engaging with the scheme of historicization, equipped to distance the present and responsibility.
Yalek
"thinking around race needs to be elastic and responsive, because racism travels faster than our ability to predict or detect it" ~ (Williams, 2022)
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