Woods, Jamila 2016
hot to the touch, always sweating
oil from some fruit or nut, conducting
electricity clockwise, 3D printing
my signature over & over again
in new cursive
– Jamila Woods, “My Afropuffs”
Read this interview with Jamila Woods from SPIN Magazine:
http://www.spin.com/2016/07/jamila-woods-chicago-heavn-new-album-interview/
it just so happens that i am hiding
weapons in my hair, just like the blonde
TSA lady expected. when she stuck her rubber
glove fingers in the thicket, a poem
jumped out and bit off her eyelashes.
– Jamila Woods, “in security or on being touched without permission”
Watch Jamila Woods’s music video for “Blk Girl Soldier:”
