the south pervades even the pluriverse
by Jeané D. Ridges
galactic terrains over yonder way
down home cooking the bona fide temporal transport
heat got you gaspin concentrated into energy
shivering guitars sunder the oblivions between us
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Gratitude to Raj
Besides abundant with Southern melanin, Jeané D. Ridges is a food-serenading, ecos-admiring poetic storyteller creating in the speculative expanse and sometimes this so-called reality while living with systemic lupus.