My Faith Unfolds Itself
after Faith Ringgold’s exhibit, “Black is beautiful,” at the Picasso Museum, Paris, 2023like a ribbonless plait: the rain outside descends in strands: percussive opera for the sheltered: petrichor of hominy and green: grief everywhere, all at once : and then the sun : reminds me I’m not new:they are my dowry : the gone ones …