A fragment of sunlight sat as a patch on a rooftop

The windows of the building concealed images

of whatever bodies swarmed the place

I am an adder snake

shedding the constraints of silk sheets of brown and gold

braided into one another like twisted roots

A rectangular pool of sunlight sat in the middle of the Marley floor

I disappeared into a new unknown, swallowed by an indulgent gust of sunlight and colors

a flat sheet of rock

that shook from the effervescence

of one’s tenacity to explore the other

A silent sense of urgency dancing angrily inside of me

In the hold of a slumber, captivating and broad, I went to a place where present and past had fought to know each other’s place

Sun rays ran across my skin

in the deepest darkest faze

as I met his gaze

and I can feel it rising through my ankles, coiling upward through my legs, with the energy of a twirling ballerina

I could no loner distinguish between the color of my skin and the captivating indulgent, heavy soil

music, the only way to sense my identity in the row of resemblance

I am still learning how I celebrate my identity.