September 19, 2016 | Occasus | Issue 6 | Poetry
Black Noise
the blackboard ticks
with sounds of knocking bone plucked blood-ripe and tooth root warm with pink hanging loose - partly, the gummed gap - gouged to carve sounds for third-born sailing lads, vultural and mercantile, boozed with Mother's Tongue yet loose and foul framing Black Blood void of story, of voice - all blackboard noise of a chalk outline troothless in an imperial overwrite |
R. A. ROBINSON is 4th year English student at Western. His current interests are in postcolonial literature. He hopes in the future to look at Afrofuturism in literature in his graduate studies. If not, he will continue to pursue his career in music as R. Flex. This year, he is releasing a mixtape called "Hologram" in March and an EP called "Restart" in the summer. He currently hosts Rainbow Radio at CHRW 94.9 on Monday nights at 10. And this year, he is excited to MC Opening Ceremonies for Black History Month on behalf of the Black Students Association and coordinate an all day broadcast called "All Black Everything" for CHRW.