The left is polarizedMillions fueled by renewed hopeHope of avoiding the horror of TrumpThe existential threat of project 2025 But a pivotal minority are enragedProtesting outside of the DNCDemanding an end to arm sales to IsraelAn end to our active complicity in genocideImagining the power of struggle I understand both […]
Black Lives Matter
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Prologue: Displacement has a long history on this groundNacotchtank: the Piscataway people’s name for this landDescribing the convergence of rivers and its peopleThis park was a Black cemeteryPowerful abolitionists lie interred hereWe imagine a legacySeeds of contemporary resistanceSowed by generations long past Act I: A History of Segregation […]
Shadows reverberate across this waterReminding me of your tantric armorInspiring meRewiring meInviting me to trust you further Leather pulsating with sex appealUnearthing truths to be revealedReleasing controlEnticing my soulArousing passion I cannot conceal We celebrate the power of blacknessWe share love and joy as we rise and resistUprooting oppressionInvoking resurrectionTantric […]
This is an explosion of the eroticSilver hair flying with the windA cycle beginsArousing desire deep within Your presence is magneticSinuous and kineticRiot glam conjures synergySizzling and electric Exploring the tantricAgainst a wall of graffitiYou exude rebellionThrough every contour of your body Riot glam is emphaticTelepathic and pornographicWe build webs […]
Scattershot photo-opsGrip my mindPierce my heart Black beauty and faith rise transcendentRivers of injustice are never-ending Light and shadow interweaveCrafting a sacred tapestryTattoos writhe with tantric energyProjecting emphatic ecstasyProjecting prophetic potency Pain and joyHope and prideManifesting before my vulnerable eyes Flood and fireLove and rageWrithing against historic psychic chains We […]
] Your presence is electricYour fire is kineticThe pulse of libido is seismicIt is transcendent and frenetic You are adorned in black obsidianAccentuating your power Manifesting as a prophet eroticYour eyes are hypnoticThey are psychotropic flowers We summon sacred spiritual fortitudeFueled by blood memories of the diasporaAncestors bless and inspireWe […]
Smoke curls around your faceLike a projection of luminous eyesEnergy reverberates around youCrafting the magic of sacred desire There are fierce tattoos etched across your chestThey are visceral brands of tantric elationTattoos are sigils of the sacred and mysticalTheir ink shapes talismans of divine transformation You are an angel of […]
The river black and matte like rubber urges me to think of the pastOceans of crime and centuries of grime dismembered by our magic at last Nations of Black bodies ensnared by other AfricansSold as chattel to avaricious conquistadors and mercantilistsThe river bleeds red in memory of this holocaust This […]
Your skin dark like night boldly seared with tattoosYou transfix my mind with intensity—with the power of your moodsWe imagine a world of love where solidarity rulesWe craft outlines of this future as we sharpen our tools We are aboriginal people before pillage and conquestWe are aboriginal nations before enslavement […]
Living with purpose—living with joy and passionShe is an oracle of truth—of psychospiritual reactions Her totems are windows into her being’s manifestationsThe giraffe connotes perspective—the butterfly signifies transformation The metaphysical power of snake medicine lies in her gifted handsWe shed old skins but sustain our essential power as lethal venom […]
You craft a citadel of pain—a cyclone of rage..You seduce with your eyes fiercely commanding the stage Your reality is mythology—rock star ego with chrome vulnerabilityThe pantheon of Montero sends sacred reverberations throughout our polity You come clad in metallic armor or enrobed in a scintillating dressYour essence is pure […]
I am evolving and deepening my awareness… With the shackles of addiction in remission I live in gratitude and in joy… I live on the manic depressive spectrum—tending towards states of hypomania and mania… Eliminating the toxicity of substances of abuse has helped me stabilize, but the powers within that […]
Energy reverberates through crystal prisms—energy that is never either created or destroyed… Power magnifies from the source, channelling energy as it changes form—cultivating connection and creativity… We are all connected to this universal power—we are all conduits for spiritual, cosmic, and tantric synergy… Our source defies and transcends gender… It […]
You are an angel in my pantheon—a muse for my creative mindThe power of your psychic torus extends and extrapolates ever further as our psyches intertwine You are evolving into a prophet of ecstasy, solidarity, and radical imaginationYou are redefining sex appeal as the primordial exoskeleton of our newrising civilization […]
This is a fantasy and a vision—it is a vector in the exercise of erotic imagination… I saw your lips meet those of your dancer, and I imagined that they were my own… I imagined the contours of your body as they channel the power of godlings of the subconscious… […]
Their eyes pulsate with emotion… All of their limbs are taut and ready animated by the urgency of the moment… These are the guardians of that which was not taken These shamanic warriors defend the motherland, guarding space for our people to thrive… We whose ancestors were expropriated fight for […]
He is an icon and a maverick—a voice of hope, sensuality, pain, and liberation… This creatrix rises to amplify the power of pride and sexuality—to bring the joys of the grind to our post-apocalyptic civilization… Like so many young black men—especially queer young black men—he wondered if his lips were […]
i am energized by attraction and by chemical reactioni yearn for connection and for seismic satisfaction this is a quest for transformation and for transcendent liberationthis is a cosmic journey traversing star systems in search of karmic libations i see ebony and onyx animating the pulse of my desirei see […]
I imagine you lying beside meblack on black—skin to skin I feel a fire of liberation deep withinI feel a cocoon of black love opening its arms so I can trust and fall in the contours of your body excite my imagination and your lips are an invitation to sacred […]
country twang meets harlem swingan old town road to the world we begin marinating and meditatingfornicating and innovating enjoying the beat driving hard and syncedsummoning the will to nurture and the will to resist this poem is an ode to the dynamo known as lil NasXhe spits rhymes that inspire […]
we are barricade freaks rocking prada in the streetwe style our rage in platinum shades shining strong and rolling deep the sacred healing we seek amplifies our quest for psychic peaceour erotic tectonics seduce the commanders of our dreadnought fleet as barricade freaks we charge ferociously into the streetswe dodge […]
manic zen from deep within fusing sin with oxygenpossibilities writhe and morph revealing potent visions usually accessed psychedelically i have seen vivid fractals unfolding before my closed eyesi have felt tantric erotic power erupting deep inside in this wretched moment civilization is at stakebut i am removed from the world […]
three sensuous bodies: three celestial auras–we aspire to cosmic connection to honor the rebels who came before us we crave dance floors so fierce that the reigning divas will come to adore us–we crave intimacy and emotional resonance over the addictive forces that long to control us this is […]
before we had a globalized system, we had globalized energy:fires of wood or wax to which we made sacred offerings of rare shells, silver, or gold before we had a world economy or planetary pandemics, we drew life and sustenance from the same sun and moon we saw our […]
my god is in the noticingnoticing the moment between when i start to breathe and when i feel the first rush of air into my lungsnoticing the energy and magic that surrounds usevident in birds that flock and fungi who thrive on the toxins leached by other forms of lifenoticing […]
collective grief and collective ragefreedom crushed, jailed and chainedwe rise in power saying all of their nameswe resist this toxic fascist plague we find joy in struggle and joy through our tearsacross our nation we rise to conquer fearpower quakes when our fires are revealedif they don’t concede we […]