LM Brimmer LM is a writer and educator living on Dakota Land. They are a two-time Givens Foundation Fellow for African American Literature, a Many Voices Playwright Fellow from the Playwrights’ Center, and in their MFA at Randolph College. Their poetry and essays have appeared in Impossible Archetype, Gasher Journal, and The Public Art Review.
unmoonlightenment One can see how color is particularly hard to manage in a personal way - June Jordan i Again, I said, Go on, Tell me how you found me on blue moon river the rock, my body pulled from the glistening, leaning against your phantomed honeyed legs and knobby knees. Between the edges: the ball in the nook of the red red lake. What a blood moon & wished for balloon: your short sleeves and the smallest hand coaxing nobility: my boy, shaking me open. ii Again, it came, from inside my hollowed face: Carribean rum still my fluttered step.
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