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Onyx

by Faylita Hicks

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he tint-less women here Mind my pockets — task me For my thick hide & tight cunt; Praise my gauze-trapped orgasms; Envy me the herd of men Who climb up out of me; Crawl into the beds of my boys & Sickle my sons with their thirst; Scrape me of my contour & Throw what’s left of my body Into their mirrors; stitch my name Into the roofs of their mouths So they too can #drippp Authentic power; praise me For my discounts on IG But disbelieve My lack of security; I’m lit Oil in they pipes — a nova Out of fashion with the times. They don’t love me as much As they love the way I am When I am smoked & Ghost-drawn; I is They idol until neon Stenciled skies hollow me Like the gun clips Of hook-handed fellows Who hollowed me & holla my name Under disco-chipped stars With the same glow As my vintage angles & Savage pose — I’m sick With the light Trapped inside of me When they aside me; I am the closest They’ve ever come to Gawd In the flesh & yet they still Have the nerve to take them fresh “Brazilian” waxes to the center Of South Shore, where they will Swipe right Until around what time Do you want to hook up; Cast themselves in shades Of bronze for bags & bills Already paid — which, true, Wouldn’t be that bad If only they didn’t: Jerk their necks like me, snap Their fingers like me, squat pop Over piles of money In the shape of a TV producer Who just happens to know The true value of false b/ l/ a/ c/ k pain; Shadow dip themselves In my hustle & use my Gawd- Given name in vain.
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Poet Faylita Hicks brings forth several poems from her debut collection of poetry, HOODWITCH, dropping October 15, 2019, from Acre Books Publishing through the Chicago Distribution Center.

You can pre-order HOODWITCH on Amazon, Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million.


Faylita Hicks (pronouns: she/her/they) is a black queer writer and the Editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. She is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow, a 2019 Jack Jones Literary Arts “Culture, Too” Fellow, and a 2019 Furious Flower Seminar Fellow. She was a finalist in the 2018 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship, the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Annual Poetry Prize and Palette Poetry’s 2019 Spotlight Award. Her debut poetry collection, HoodWitch, is forthcoming October 15, 2019, with Acre Books.

Her poetry and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Slate, Huffington Post, The Texas Observer, POETRY magazine, Kweli Journal, The Rumpus, Foundry, The Cincinnati Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Lunch Ticket, Matador Review, and others.

She received her MFA from Sierra Nevada College’s low-residency program and lives in San Marcos, Texas. She is at work on a memoir.

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released June 15, 2019

Music production x Delano Taylor.
Recording x Troy Baham.
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Faylita Hicks (pronouns: she/her/they) is a black queer writer and the Editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. A 2019 LAMBA Lit Fellow, she was a finalist in the 2018 PEN American Writing for Justice Fellowship, the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Annual Poetry Prize and Palette Poetry’s 2019 Spotlight Award. Her debut book, HoodWitch, is forthcoming October 2019 with Acre Books. ... more

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