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Chirskira Caillouet

Posted inLit Issue, Poetry

Black Boy Brown; Nostalgia

by Chirskira Caillouet August 3, 2016August 14, 2016

Black boy brown with sky in his head dreams world without violence Multitude of ancestors cradles me to sleep when the gunshots rang like church bells The siren squealed a death knoll. Circus lights approaching the madness of a chalked gingerbread man who ran away from home into the safe arms of his homies. Now […]

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