Residual(s)

“each day our sticky bones get rinsed
from white tubs and no one ever
wonders where we go”
— R.J. Petteway, "Sand"

  • Cavities: Or, I Count These Days in Toes
    Resistance Poetry (2020)

  • Coffee
    P.S. I Love You (2020)

  • Fire: Or, Hafsa, Ruhel’s Daughter
    Resistance Poetry (2020)

  • Lilac (Revelations 20:20)
    Kithe Journal (2021)

  • Sand (The Breathing Dark)
    Kithe Journal (2021)

  • Bruise (Shanghai)
    Kithe Journal (2021)

  • Bread: Or, Jesus Was an Epidemiologist (and Black), PT.I
    Health Promotion Practice (2022)

  • Smoke: Or, Black & Mild — A Tutorial, After the CDC
    Health Promotion Practice (2022)

  • Nag Champa: Or, Something Something Something by Race, 2021
    International Journal of Epidemiology (2022)

  • Curacao (Adjustment)
    Health Promotion Practice (2022)

  • Oil: Or, Billable
    Bellevue Literary Review (2022)
    Finalist, 2022 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry

  • Ice: Or, Infrastructure
    LIGHT Magazine (2023)

  • Glass
    Epiphany Magazine (2023)

  • Lavender
    Epiphany Magazine (2023)

  • Carbon
    Michigan Quarterly Review (forthcoming)

  • Pine
    Michigan Quarterly Review (forthcoming)

  • Callas
    Michigan Quarterly Review (forthcoming)

“they’ll remember the days
they began to burn
not as immolations, but celebrations
with masks & signs
& cake-less “happy birthdays”
washing hands in bathrooms
their ancestors could not ”
— R.J. Petteway, "Fire"

 

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