35 Enter inhale. Enter time. Enter inheritance.
Enter or else. Enter doors with handles,
without handles, manually manipulated. Enter alone
feelings. Enter tension. Struggle entering
bitterness enter. Love turning towards lust enter.
Historic languages enter. Human conditions of
oppression enter. Enter roadside assistance. Enter
talented man killed too soon. Gravemarker write
L.O.W. Enter near Dayton settlement but
specifically at Englewood location. Enter chirping
bird sounds out of the ceiling again. Enter your
own music mixing up into the chirps of birds. Enter
memory again. Enter thought again. Enter more and
more gunshots. Enter yelling. Enter empathy and
critical engagement.
Rodney A. Brown is a poet, writer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist whose work draws on he(r) experiences with AIDS, mental illness, and homelessness. He(r) writing has appeared in the Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, and their performances on Black lives and mental health have been sponsored at the Society of Dance History Scholars’ Congress on Research in Dance and the United States Conference on AIDS. They taught as a choreographer at the university level and attended the Saint Francis College MFA program in creative writing. Rodney recommends The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation.
