WHAT IS MY WEALTHY PLACE1

B CARRIE-YVONNE

What’s more fluid than water?2

Venus as is3 hear like you never left, what you wasnt able to tell me in flesh you do so in my dreams.

Little B’s4 Black garden turn anchored vessel set free on solace streaks zero to three5 stroke color match gravity taken top of gravel.

I dont wait for the sky to turn blue, Light lays me down in white. Cousin Dororthy’s accent grooms me to good condition

I tend to Emezi’s spine6 herringbone7 knots flaked out chrome perimeter hanging off flesh belonging tethered inside a carcass-buoy8 figure 8s shaded gray

Sweet Suite B,9

Wake me up on 3rd.10

I love when the currents carry me home11

1 First heard the phrase and song Wealthy Place by Lashun Pace at Death To The Black Superwoman: A Sermon by Logan Shanks on May 2, 2022 via Zoom

2 Roxie sharing there’s more ways to be soft on facetime on May 1, 2022

3 Corine Bailey Rae, “Venus As A Boy (Q Covermount)”, Corinne Bailey Rae (Deluxe Edition), Virgin Records Limited, February 24, 2006. (see second planet from Sun)

4 Bobby Hutcherson, “Little B’s Poem”, Components, Blue Note, June 10, 1965.

5 Brown, Douglas. Zero to Three. The University of Georgia Press. October 15, 2014.

6 Emezi, Akwaeke. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir. Riverhead Books. June 8, 2021.

7 Inherited Cousin Dorothy’s herringbone

8 Learned my wealthy place looks like me floating in water under the sun at Logan’s sermon

9 Fit for a Queen of Atlanta, dress store for prom and pageants

10 Moved on 3rd St June 10, 2022

11 My spirit team visits me in the form of whales on October 1, 2021 title: kalin

What does your wealthy place look like? Does it have a smell or a sound? Does it exist right now?

Artist: kalin devone Plate