Month: September 2017

Prophets

Prophets

Truth tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. Gwendylon Brooks Prophets’ words seep from split lips, scroll single file to form concentric circles between shoulder blades, targets upon their own backs. Truth spewers and sooth sayers, indignant, uncouth to the 

Stew Meat

Stew Meat

I grew up on lamb. It was baked in kibba, stewed in tomato sauce with green beans, rolled tightly into cabbage leaves. The taste of my home and the scent of my father’s mother’s kitchen. After leaving for college, I often called home to ask