A Texas summer day Borders Like water/rock Tree/sky Rope swing/air Road/sidewalk Water/air to breathe
My brown-skinned daughters Swim, play, float, dive, cling
A Texas summer day Borders Like current/shore Clay/solid ground War/peace Fear/full bellies Cold/blankets Journey/cage Tyranny/freedom
Brown-skinned daughters Enter the river And leave the Earth Enter the desert
And leave the Earth And dive and play In limestone pools Between earth and sky
Susan Niz’s second chapbook,Left-Handed Like a Lightning Whelk, is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press (November 2019). Her novel Kara, Lost (North Star Press, 2011) was a finalist for a Midwest Book Award for Literary Fiction. She has a Master’s Degree in Education, raises kids, has been a grassroots community organizer and conserves Monarchs. She recently relocated from Minnesota to the Austin area.
Wimpy AF is a Brooklyn-based archivist who moonlights as a poet and painter. The AF is for Afrofuturist.
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