honey in my breakfast (cover art by adams carvahlo)

on a raw planet of false belonging

My school of indifference opened and never closed; I remained its only student. BORN IN BABYLON is a collection of short essays, fragments, prose, creative nonfiction, and other miscellany regarding Blackness, womanhood, memory, identity, and America. Highest Ranking: #1 in essays © Z. T. Corley, 2024

youth grows on branches of mango trees. pluck them early green and bury them in rice baskets to ripen them quick. love grows on branches of guava trees. pluck them early green and they are solid teeth-breakers. pluck them late white, love melts in your mouth into pulpy relish.

all ended with her eyes, hell, purgatory, paradise.

emo drafts

what you love me for

poetry

Blackness is synonymous with cruelty © Z. T. Corley, 2024

flux hunting