First Grade Autobiography
Everything swarms
of humidity and cockroaches
and mosquitos. I slap my legs
On the men of this family: to their future lovers
These men are West Virginia pickaxe, fluent
in uprooting and the duration of heat
before a harvest. How hands can dance
What my brother’s brownness means to him
a friend recently said that I'm white
as fuck. Here's a brown education on being
American: my mother spoons food to punish