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Elegy for Dead Black Women #1

The first death comes by
Bullet. The second, when they’ve
forgotten your name.

Excerpt from Testify (Octopus Books, 2017).
Originally published in Sink Review Issue #18

Image by: Blood At the Root exhibit curators Rachel Caidor, Mariame Kaba, Deana Lewis, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Ash Stephens/ design by Antonia Clifford

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