Homeschooling - by
I’m teaching my children what’s happening
right now, which is to say I’m dredging
an ocean of oil-black sludge into our home
I’m teaching my children what’s happening
right now, which is to say I’m dredging
an ocean of oil-black sludge into our home
Thaim the maist idle at chynge are aye deaved
wi the biggin o idols tae staun owre the lave
o whae heized thaim up by, mebbe fine, maistly no
wi the auld warl we’re bidin in yit, faur ablo.
I’m sick of anticipating my own othering.
Thank god for places where people aren’t
Scotland, you’re no mine
(you were no his)
and I don’t want you.
Eliza Junor, born 1804, Demerara, died Fortrose, 1861; daughter of Hugh Junor, slave owner from the Black Isle, and an unknown mother, probably a slave, or a ‘free coloured’ woman. Died Fortrose, 1861; won a prize for penmanship at Fortrose Academy. I’ve learned my letters well – my copperplate masts and sailsflow across the page, […]
Inna calabash
tell them that the baby
that count in them census already
Inna calabash
He is a man for whom everyone’s a trespasser.
/ Co-existence? He doesn’t believe in it.
/ Give you the time of day? Not…