Why Mars Matters (to me)

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. A solar day on the Red Planet is approximately twenty-four hours, thirty-five minutes, and thirty-five seconds long. There are volcanoes, dust devils, and liquid water. Once every two years, Mars and Earth are closest to each other when they are on the same side of the Sun. Elon …

Bulls eye

evidence of flinch, (my) flinching learned to pull a trigger strapping up perhaps, there is (was) a war & the (Right’s wrong) Trump (is) coming for people (othered) like me. evidence of flinch, (my flinching) the Glock was heavy loaded, loud. recoil a surprise. steady. breathe. release. bulls (eye). bulls (eye).

Black History Month – Celebrating Our Warrior Women

I took this picture while during research at Arlington Memorial, the site of the Women in Military Service for America memorial.  I found this beautiful warrior glaring, thinking.  I don’t know where she is, I don’t know where she was going.  I imagine her in a helicopter enroute to a mission with her comrades, or …

Black History Month – Buffalo Soldier Baseball

Family history had been a mystery to me prior to me “data mining” for my latest project “Moving Behind Moses – A poem celebrating African American Women’s  Contributions to the United States Military”.  My father didn’t talk much about his father, other than he left his mother.  My father was actually raised by his grandmother …