If you look closely, many black men have hieroglyphics on their necks, telling a story of a razor blade and a ghost & in between those two, a young man whose skin is made of black ashes. When strands of manhood bud around his jawline, he turns to himself and lit TV, smoothing the surface […]
Oak Morse
Oak Morse lives in Houston, Texas, where he teaches creative writing and performance and leads a youth poetry troop, the Phoenix Fire-Spitters. He was the 2017 resident at the Hambidge Center, the winner of the 2017 Magpie Award for Poetry in Pulp Literature, and a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Oak’s work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Indianapolis Review, and Star 82 Review, among others.