The Sankofa Muse

  On July 15, 1872, Laura Rollins was born. And the lives of so many people were therefore blessed. Her death in 1977, shortly before her 10...

Every spiral through time forces us to look at when the circle started and do everything we can to learn how the ancestors – at least some o...

  Not  yet comfortably crawling                                                     my little one was twisting and rolling across the di...

[ Mary contemplates Joseph, after the Annunciation ] I. They never knew what would pull us into whispers when the learned men would ramble i...

  Upon pain of losing fingers   hands   tongues eyes   or breath itself                                                                     ...

  The Wonder Will Be for a friend, on his birthday  There were how many days                                                  before I stopp...

 [ In perpetual, joyful transcendent honor of Toni Morrison, upon the issuing of the U. S. Postal Stamp, March 7, 2023. First presented as p...