Heading Out: Saturday, November 01, 2025. Photo Collage Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt|Cartoon’d Tre by Google Gemini
GAINING confidence “fifteen minutes at a time” l i v i n g without her
Have you gotten your copy of Séduire: Serial Tales & Flash Fiction at Lulu in E-Book& Paperback versions, or Amazon in Paperback(only) yet?
I am on Substack as well. Poking the Bear’s Belly for Fun is a place of healing as I speak aboutrecent events with a previous place of employment, as it pertains to racism and discrimination, growth from the transition after resigning from that company, and life’s foibles and overall experiences. I welcome your visit.
AI-generated image: Two Black women; one has an afro and is wearing black rimmed glasses, the other has locs and is donning massive gold hoop earrings. They both have pensive expressions on their faces as they hold on to each other in a sinkhole.
away from you
Con Funk Shun plays, and I finally hear what I need to in Michael Cooper’s sultry voice… “That’s the way it goes on Love’s Train,” and you begin to fade from memory.
As soon as you float into another part of my mind, The Gap Band plays, and then I hear, “Keep running,” and here I am… trying to talk myself from chasing after you.
I am slowing down, finding my own beat, and my own words to get far away from you.
death from cold
cold weather moves in without an invite–banging at the doors of the sky, willing to lap dance the day away, as long as it’s paid in full before the next business day.
its pimp hangs out around the corner, strangling the sun and threatening to take the heat from it.
we all layer up for safety. we don’t want to catch our death from cold.
AI-Generated Image: A few trees draped in the colors of autumn. Behind them are a couple of houses, faintly noticeable in the background.
Autumn has gotten comfortable enough to undress, to finally tame the seasonal shift. It does this with the perfect amount of finesse. Autumn has gotten comfortable enough to undress. We find ourselves somehow stressing less, and this is truly the perfect gift. Autumn has gotten comfortable enough to undress, to finally tame the seasonal shift.
Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-BookandPaperback) yet?
I recently signed up to write on Substack as well. Poking the Bear’s Belly for Fun is a place of healing as I speak aboutthe most recent events with a previous place of employment, as it pertains to racism and discrimination, growth from the transition after resigning from that company, and life’s foibles and overall experiences. I welcome your visit.
AI-Generated Image: The photo shows People of Color standing defiantly outside, in the open, waiting for something to happen. Perhaps, change?
I AM tired of work; I am tired of building up somebody else’s civilization. The beer company did not hire Blacks or Puerto Ricans, so my father joined the picket line Steadfast and awful, my tall father Hit hard as a hailstorm. He’d leave marks.
You ain’t gonna be able to say a word If I land my fist on you. Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
The mob arrives with stones and sticks to maim and lame and do me in. It has been a hard trudge, with fainting, bandaging and death. come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.
she say, she don’t know how she’d get along without Beulah show me someone not full of herself and i’ll show you a hungry person let snow soothe you make your healing water clear sweet.
What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. I bit sweet power to the core. How can I say what it was like? Remember what the world is like for white people.
This is my first Cento. I knew the topic I wanted to write about–knew the theme instantly (mental exhaustion from oppressive regimes and how the system is still designed to benefit the majority over minorities). I reflected upon the indomitable Writers of Color to be able to express the point I intended to get across. I researched writers, poems, and pieces of prose before compiling lines to build stanzas that, in my humble opinion, flowed seamlessly. I hope I created that.
Inspirational Works: Tired by Fenton Johson, All Poetry The Sign in my Father’s Hands by Martin Espada, Poetry Foundation Duplex by Jericho Brown, Poetry Foundation The Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes, All Poetry If We Must Die by Claude McKay, Poetry Foundation Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros, Genius To Black Women by Gwendolyn Brooks, Illinois Poet’s Forum won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Cliftion, Poetry Foundation Stagerlee wonders by James Baldwin, Poetry Foundation Poem for a Lady Whose Voice I Like by Nikki Giovanni, Poetry Foundation Appalachian Elegy (1-6) by bell hooks, Poetry Foundation Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda, Quantum Eve Remembering by Toni Morrison, Poets.org If You Are Over Staying Woke by Morgan Parker, Poetry Foundation
Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-BookandPaperback) yet?
I recently signed up to write on Substack as well. Poking the Bear’s Belly for Fun is a place of healing as I speak aboutthe most recent events with a previous place of employment, as it pertains to racism and discrimination, growth from the transition after resigning from that company, and life’s foibles and overall experiences. I welcome your visit.
The Breast Cancer/Domestic Violence Awareness display at my local USPS. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt
Early detection Boosts your C h a n c e of survival
Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-BookandPaperback) yet?
I recently signed up to write on Substack as well. Poking the Bear’s Belly for Fun is a place of healing as I speak aboutthe most recent events with a previous place of employment, as it pertains to racism and discrimination, growth from the transition after resigning from that company, and life’s foibles and overall experiences. I welcome your visit.
Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-BookandPaperback) yet?
I recently signed up to write on Substack as well. Poking the Bear’s Belly for Fun is a place of healing as I speak aboutthe most recent events with a previous place of employment, as it pertains to racism and discrimination, growth from the transition after resigning from that company, and life’s foibles and overall experiences. I welcome your visit.
A Cornered Gurl 
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