Omotara James
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Omotara James is the author of “Song of My Softening,” from Alice James Books. A multidisciplinary artist, she creates as a means to preserve joy, confront the past and free herself of it.
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Poem to Call You Back Home
Child, you were born during a rainstorm. Or snow. Or the day was soft and cloudless. Or your lungs were full of night. This day was certainly the shortest or longest of the year. Your mother. Or your birth mother. Or your father or your birth father. Or your life giver. Was reading at home. Was on their way back from the store. Was on their way to work. Had no place to go. Was dreaming of you,
By Omotara James4 years ago in Poets
Two Sentences in Apartment 5C
“Are you seriously going to eat that?” Sasha was hunched over the retro-style refrigerator, long enough for the fridge light to go out. Her almond eyes were squeezed firmly shut as beads of sweat rolled from her temples to the bridge of her nose. Even for July, this Arizona heatwave was sickening. Her hand was holding a container of the last remaining item from last night’s takeout disaster: a slice of Double-Dutch Death By Chocolate Cake. They’d ordered in, from the same ridiculous diner where they’d met three years ago. This had become their default anniversary dinner. However, last night they bit off more than they could chew from this expensive hipster establishment built solely to separate the local private university’s enrollees from their parents’ allowances.
By Omotara James4 years ago in Pride
The Summer Janet Jackson Teaches Me How to Be Black
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By Omotara James5 years ago in Poets
Summertime Sweetness
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By Omotara James5 years ago in Poets
