I tried to put in some poems that have been on my mind lately, but the markdown format makes it really hard to get the formatting right, so I guess here they are in screenshot or link form:
Mitten by Eileen Myles
The peach sky is beautiful / and black outlines / of the branches / and the leaves / look I even / hesitate but it doesn't / matter if it all comes / at once or breaks / down slow. Catch this / honking or the rumbling /of the world.
And I have been / beaten & suffered and you / have too. Whoop whoop / listen to that someone / getting arrested. Someone / caught, someone’s heart / just stopped. Someone / else holding the bag.
Peanut Butter by Eileen Myles
And / I am an enemy / of change, as / you know.
I am / absolutely in opposition / to all kinds of / goals. I have / no desire to know / where this, anything / is getting me. / When the water / boils I get / a cup of tea. / Accidentally I / read all the / works of Proust. / It was summer / I was there / so was he.
During / my life I was / a woman with / hazel eyes. Out / the window / is a crooked / silo.
I love / you from my / childhood, / starting back / there when / one day was / just like the / rest
Violence by Zaina Alsous
I don’t know what they thought I was capable of; / I wish I was more capable of it.
Biography by Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Fady Joudah
And from Dambudzo Marechera, The Black Insider, still:
"'Oh, black insider! We should have turned at that corner where the crucified man pointed the way. (...) I should have turned at that corner where history moulders in grimy basement rooms.'"