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Shayla Lawson

Shayla Lawson
Shayla Lawson (shaylalawson.com) is the author of the chapbook PANTONE (Miel 2016) and the forthcoming I Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean (Saturnalia 2018). She has written for Salon, ESPN, Guernica, and The Offing.

Strawberry Swing

By Shayla Lawson
Poetry•Vol. XXIX No. 3 (Winter 2016)

I listen to the guns. They clear the ground of all its color & I flirt. I kiss you in the grove too quickly. I swing through your undress the words that “black lives …” I do not know how to ask you to love me yet. For everyone of us I see die, I… [Read More]

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