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Siaara Freeman

Pondering of the 4th grade Life Thief: Pantoum

In 4th grade I killed something to make a girl earrings:
Like my father I am a life thief, it was easy.

Lighting Bugs love Black girls in July,
but what doesn’t pick a season to love Black girls?

Like my father I am a life thief, it was easy
if you pluck the wings – all that’s left is jewelry.

But what doesn’t pick a season to love black girls?
Infatuation is the trail of slime from heart to ear

if you pluck the wings – all that’s left is jewelry,
she accepts the gift but not me, I am candy rot.

Infatuation is the trail of slime from heart to ear,
she pretends to hate insects when the boys come around.

She accepts the gift but not me, I am candy rot.
Every giggle leaves a wingless creature in its wake.

She pretends to hate insects when the boys come around,
she offers me to the boys in autumn.

Every giggle leaves a wingless creature in its wake.
Lighting bugs love Black girls in July

She offers me to the boys in autumn
In 4th grade I killed some
thing  to make a girls
ears ring.

Siaara Freeman is 27 years of dramatic entrances and exits & from Cleveland Ohio.She is a 2016 pushcart prize nominee, 2016 best new poet nominee, 2017 bettering american poetry nominee & a 2017 button chapbook contest finalist. She is the founder of online magazine wusgood.black and an editor for Tinderbox Literary journal.She is the current coach for the Detroit Brave New Voices team. In her spare time she is growing her afro so tall, God mistakes it for a microphone & speaks into her. You can find some of her work in CrabFat Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, Black Napkin Press…