somethingdarker

a southern philter with a touch of botulism - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"

halfway house for broken history - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"

his inner stars all spilling out - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

to all the gods in waiting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

an enclave for cosmic waves - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

our small volley of prayers & dreams - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

blue jays spun down from outer space - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

a hard rain cancelled this existential parade - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

the grateful host for our sorrows and our joys - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

my dark surrealism written in slang - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

commanding dark algebraic emblems to stand - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

preserves the tar from a borealis - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

every hieroglyph hidden deep - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

a tonsil in the mouth of space and time - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

the flora of the open palm closing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

an array of shadows in my lungs - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

from some inner event horizon - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

where dawn is denied a body - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

a bricolage of place & memory - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Blueprint For An African American Space Station"

my hubris a hybrid with debris - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Blueprint For An African American Space Station"

our caravan of many shadows - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "A Blues For Eunice Waymon"

our pillow talk of acceptance & cigarette ash - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "A Blues For Eunice Waymon"

toiling at the feet of empire - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

my odalisque in apron and sackcloth - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

a satchel of laments for a basket of hibiscus - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

behind our walls of thatch and moss and tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

we two usurp a throne - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

Dashed through all the flames to kill the witch - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

Gifted keepsakes by their kings - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

Riding comets bareback through cosmic alleys - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

A commodifying media and its monopolizing imagination - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

Weaponized into political meaning - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

My history defying assumptions of gravity - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

My lungs at maximum capacity of sadness - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

beat back whatever hordes come haunting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

your mission statement was always insufficient - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

by your design it's always autumn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

even in the dead of space, a drumming - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

a soothsayer with sandpaper hands - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

two tragic martyrs on coffee break - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

giving parables in answer to every mathematical equation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

barter in the currencies of bravado and spotlight - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

the exchange in theories of introspection - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

every conversation meant as embrace - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

to walk an island of seashells - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

an island of seashells within the rings of Saturn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

not enough prime numbers; and not enough time travel - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"

her clothes hamper full of Euclidean geometry - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"

a full moon in diaspora - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Rocket No. 9 To Venus"

leave room for levitation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

still the tint of video game to your voice - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

although your beliefs all chew tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

at the precipice between gardenias blue and begonias black - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

blowing kisses to clouds of heather - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

a crevice that leaks god and reeks magic - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

porcelain is the purgatory of most men - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

buried beneath an often borrowed freedom - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

the residue of treasured memory - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

a love stripping itself bare - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

a sun you thought existed much closer - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

amoebas in your motherboards - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Spaceshp For Sale"

until our clays together tangle - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

the heat of mythologies at melt - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

before sin might reek of permanence - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

they once offered asylum to the Sun - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

you scrape for life in a vacuum - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

humanity is the eyelid of the sun - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

while its secrets shape the court - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

black neon wrapped in sky blue linen - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

the universe in diasphoric wailing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

ruining our recipe for reanimation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

the evisceration of slang on altars made unkind - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

the only mythology that remains - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

how else to explain this oscillating darkness - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

that hauled Kilimanjaro into Kentucky - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

and neither of us can break tradition - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

so I bequeath to earth my dying gasp - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

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