likemiles

like miles

black like miles

and for miles

my flamenco sketches

paint poetry with

precision, and with

every decision i

pause—like the

stench of oppression

of forty thousand

years, the tears

of ancestry etched

deep from within,

the analogous heart

beat to survival

and strength, the

moments of life

when i’m kind

of blue—black

like miles and

for miles my

flamenco sketches paint

historical inner visions.

-e.