Illustration in warm pinks and purples shows a solemn Black woman in profile, confronting a fragmented reflection of herself smiling n the center, surrounded by expressions of anguish.

UNTIL TODAY1 All my poetry has been di- Agnostic: a [swamp of self-Deception] best described As [beautiful and ugly], withal IHave never written the word “Dys-Phoria,” have not trekked its pinkPink [wound] about this [land-Scape of myself]. My [mind], a black Gash when called “[man].” A tradition, It is: my grandmother, committedTo [suicide], took her […]

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