Sunday_After_Snow

Posted bySynnika Alek-Chizoba LoftonPosted inPoems, mailbox weeklyTags:, , ,

Boots in the snow labor for the cause.
Can’t start the day without testing

the body, the fences, the boundaries,
the empire’s yellow backbone. Game’s

new mixtape got that DJ Drama vibe,
painting pictures over gritty NYC

soundscapes, pulsing with hustle music
through tiny black earbuds. I escape

the machine each day. Train the mind
to wiggle through the cages, to navigate

around cracks in the cement. This jungle
moves, like an insatiable animal, a savage

creature evolving with each breath that
it takes.  I crunch through white layers–

an American life–avoiding black ice
in between the buildings. Urban sprawl

exhales a broken scene, forcing the issue
on a bright Sunday morning.

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Published by Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton

"Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award winning poet, the president and CEO of Guerrilla Ignition LLC, host of a Nationally Syndicated radio show, and an educator, teaching literature at Chesapeake Bay Academy and English courses at Norfolk State University. Lofton has recorded more than one hundred and fifty CDs, albums, CD-singles, and mixtapes of poetry, including his highly praised debut, The New Breed. He is the author of twelve books and the founder of Riot Speech, a musical genre combining performance poetry with traditional musical forms, such as Rock, Jazz, and Hip Hop. His poems have been published in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A Journal of the Arts, UpStreet: A Literary Magazine, and, in 2014, Lofton has been featured in Blind Sided Magazine. He is a regular on Virginian television programs such as The Hampton Roads Show and Chesapeake’s Thinking Out Loud on WCTV. He teaches World Literature, British Literature, and Composition, while touring the country, performing at literary festivals, musical festivals, poetry readings, open mics, concerts, high schools, and colleges."

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