Poetry
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Changing the focus of my book, as I mentioned in my previous post, also resulted in a change of landscape. For some reason, I found myself writing a story in which the dead are running things. Not in a horror type of way but more in an Afrofuturistic vein. Not sure if the ACNH fits…
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Well, after much time and effort, I have finally finished my book. The title of the book is the same as the title of this post (ACNH, for short), with the addition of Volume 1: Small Box of Words, as I hope this book becomes a series. I must say the the novel ended up…
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Since I’ve been busy not paying attention to this blog, I have progressed beyond Writing the Bones, my previous segment on the writing of my 1st conceptual verse novel. The skeleton is solidly formed and now it’s time to put meat on the bones, so to speak. The next segment, in my progression, will be…
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World building. It recently threw me for a loop identifying that that is what I am doing with my work in progress. It also excited me but this post is not about that aspect. It threw me for a loop because I’m usually write poems that say something about my life, experiences and/or history. The…
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The words are flowing and I’m feeling inspired. I can see the path forward. All of a sudden something I have written strikes me as wrong, flawed. I run through possible permutations before I stop myself. Editing in the midst of writing has to be my worse characteristic as a writer. It dissipates the energy…
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Flora and FaunaI wanted to bless my eyes this morningwith flora and faunaso I came in from the coldof a dream full of unrelenting rainand opened my eyes to what is customarilymy second sighting of the day:My ideological fathershot down in the Audubon ballroomwhere the only bird observed in motionwas the misappropriated eagleuntil the phoenix…
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I was all set to start publishing the next chapters in Goree Island Ghosts; was typing it out on actual WordPress when the muse came calling. Gotta go where it takes you so those chapters are now in editing mode. Also, every single article screams at me YOU MUST PROMOTE! (Yes, they do scream because…
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don’t ask me how i like it cause i like it like that like lauren velez sticky sweet like honey amped like espresso diaphanous like weed smoke rock solid like ashford and simpson phosphorous like venus everlasting like ever-ready comical like cedric digging dogs like dmx diggedy diggedy like das efx between the sheets like…
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I. that sensation again the magnetic pull of ocean sediment settling on forming my skeleton the ghosts of those thrown overboard collecting melanin deposits from the atlantic’s floor sending it to me in waves giving my skeleton the skin it lacks monetaria moneta yielding up its protective shells giving me eyes of cowrie, the whites…
Tichaona Chinyelu 