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We Found Love in Protest Streets

December 30, 2020 The Hellebore

because we want to live & love & make flowery memoriesall broken by stray bullets. by guns aimed at uswe…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Indie Press, Literary Magazine, Poetry, Rahma O. Jimoh, The Hellebore Press

green-red-green

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in this part of the world,our leaders celebrate 60 years of free-doomby ploughing peaceful protesters from their mother’s soilthey say…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Indie Publishing, Poetry, Rahma O. Jimoh, The Hellebore Press

The Sun Turns On Us

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Morning: resurrections of the summer sunthe moon has left behind wet blades of grass a surreal fear of the ultravioletwith…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Literary Magazine, Sihle Ntuli, The Hellebore, The Hellebore Press

Pollination

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The sky is envious of footprints grazing the earth in silence, Another name for lone walks is silence.  I am no…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Indie Publishing, Poetry, Roseline Mgbodichinma, The Hellebore Press

Baltimore 68/15

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This city has been known to erupt in ash.They gas our tears/call it a riot.Yet, they call they pitchforks a…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Indie Publishing, Jason B. Crawford, Poetry, The Hellebore Press

Ornaments

December 28, 2020 The Hellebore

Inside my décor are cobblestones My womb is plastered in ornaments My red velvet walls are October hallsIt’s the idea that I…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Indie Literature, Literary Journal, Melissa Menny, Poetry, The Hellebore Press

The Thing Is We Are Probably Angels

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Tonight the moon is a skyscraper.A million tiny islands sewn into the sky’sskin twinkle above the heads of mortals& spikelets…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Indie Literature, Michael Akuchie, Poetry, The Hellebore Press

Martins Deep

December 30, 2020 The Hellebore

Martins Deep (he/him) is a Nigerian poet, photographer, & student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He is passionate about documenting…

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Posted in: Art, Issue Six: Red Velvet Filed under: Art Magazine, Indie Publishing, Martins Deep, Photographer, The Hellebore

Mama Calls

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“Am I a good mother? Was I a good mother to you?” While I’m in college, my mother calls just…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Ashley Elizabeth, Creative Nonfiction, Indie Publishing, The Hellebore

Sideline Ho

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(for Monica, #Verzuz, and Black pandemonium) You sure you ain’tAmerica’s Ho too You sure youain’t wreckage A gutted house ontwice…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet Filed under: Danielle P. Williams, Literary Journal, Poetry, Poetry Press, The Hellebore Press

Love Song For The Weird Black Girl

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Hold me Black girl with the dark eyesand bright colored braids. Hold mein that close embrace of kindred spirits.Sister of…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Candria Slamin, Indie Publishing, Poetry, The Hellebore Press

Mother in the Sun

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Mother knits in the sun, hummingsongs of birds. Having snapped her flowers from the branches of the past,she sings about…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Indie Literature, Joseph C.P. Christopher, Literary Magazine, Poetry, The Hellebore, The Hellebore Press

On That Time We Went to Universal Studios Because Granny Hit the Lotto

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When I was a kid I didn’t have cable, so Nickelodeon was a Holy Grail onlyattainable at my aunt’s house…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Chris L. Butler, Indie Publishing, Poetry, The Hellebore Press

Trap House Capitalism

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I enter the trap house of addictionUnaware of what lies aheadA repetitive destruction, my new affliction Thedomino effect yielding a…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Chris L. Butler, Indie Publishing, Poetry, The Hellebore Press

boy, black, man

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i worship the day because it survived the night – romeo oriogun this night is having a rhythm of its…

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Posted in: Issue Six: Red Velvet, Poetry Filed under: Indie Publishing, Poetry, The Hellebore Press, Timothy Ojo

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