Melanated Motives
Dedicated to melanin
From Melanotes I
Ode to Melanin
Artwork for shoulders, burnt orange mosaic aftermaths of active volcanoes.
Walking around with Sunrise and Sunset for thighs, glowing like tips of embers.
Made to bear fruit-hips, carvings from orchards of peaches and plums.
A body like an entire block of New York brownstones, mixtures of strength and natural tones.
Licorice-tinted coils living as backdrops to
Godiva eyes.
Lips, an ancient hieroglyphic lockbox.
Melanin, cathedral.
Skin light passes through like stained glass windows.
Colorblind
Virgin white bedsheets decorated in our blended bloodshed red.
Broken vessels near my neck lose oxygen and light reflects shades of blue.
In retaliation, my favorite color is blackout.
Your Badu green eyes easily turned in to bruises: purple spots on my back.
Results of inflicting my wounds rests in the vast exposure of your dermis, flesh pink
Be killed in here or die inside.