Four Poems

by KB Brookins

art is the persistence 

After Salvador Dali

I want to be legendary 

after Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple”

Ignorance

Mother

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KB Brookins is a writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. They are the author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press 2022), Freedom House (Deep Vellum 2023), and Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf 2024). Follow them online at @earthtokb.