Old Home Videos, Circa 2000
My father’s greatest heist was my memories. Moments captured and stolen. My youths end, 1 minute and 30 seconds. Father plays emotional ransom with my lifetime, holds photographs and videos…
Tag: art
Hand-Me-Down Box
The women in my family have charms and secrets hidden in a hand me down box We do not talk about the contents inside, not a tale to tell twice…
For George Floyd
Poem transcribed as performed. Help me… I can’t breathe… He’s going to kill me… Trigger finger, counterfeit bill, telling the officer he can’t breathe 15 times, one time too many.…
Kenya Burton Poetry 