Fingers slender, white and hot with mushes of hair ran its meandered course through a trespassed terrain. My breath held back in aghast turned my body cold Alert I stood in a forced helplessness with legs stretched, arms spread and underarms in sweat. My young son looked through the tinted glass. His mother had turned into a doll in this officer's hands. The man's fingers disappeared into cream laces of a halter neck The search spread into contours deep where treasures of a lifetime were hid. Each second of that touch felt sharper than a thousand tigers' claws. He patted my butt "Search over." I raised my face to the sky. The blackness of my skin confronted the blackness of the clouds. I cried out loud in bolts of absorbed indignity piercing the deepest jungles of Amazon. "I am black born black but I bleed red hemoglobin red ...................... ..................... ..................... not black my tears are colou
Celebrating the self with a different beat! In each breath, each step.