Archive - BlakBlan’s Substack

Meditations on Marriage

Apr 29, 2024 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

February 2024

Winter Wonderland

You wandered into the blizzard when I was weak tearful blood between my legs lost in an endless migration of frost-bound ground unyielding soil and…

Feb 12, 2024 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

December 2023

Makaya & Solstice 2023

Sometimes coming home means leaving the place that isn’t. Time is best measured in the most liberatory ways: the cycles of this planet Earth around the…

Dec 22, 2023 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

October 2023

for the baby born in Gaza under reign of US tax-backed bombs who will survive against all odds and grow up to write the poem that breaks open the…

Oct 19, 2023 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

August 2023

for Baba Marcus

sweet is the stillness that welcomes dawn bird calls heralding the sun sunrise over the river each ripple of water reflecting new palettes of color more…

Aug 24, 2023 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

July 2023

Los Desaparecidos

Author's Note: I wrote this several (seemingly very long) months ago, and am publishing it today because 1) it captures some element of the gaslighting…

Jul 5, 2023 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

June 2023

May 2023

Author's Note: It's a few hours late, but this is shared in honor of Haitian Flag Day, though I wrote it around 2008 or 2009.

May 19, 2023 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

Full Moon Magic

Author's Note: shared in honor of this past weekend's Full Moon cycle, I started this poem during the April Full Moon cycle and completed it today.

May 9, 2023 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

Amar's "last night" in Roxbury

Author's Note: I wrote this March 10 2018; sharing now to preface a forthcoming essay about the healing power & responsibility of musicians/artists, and…

May 4, 2023 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

April 2023

Visions of the Future

Author's Note: I wrote this poem in 2019 but am dedicating it (a few days late) to Earth Day 2023, and to grandmothers - especially Goldie Wenger Shaw …

Apr 27, 2023 •

Katherine Jenkins Djom

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