they
never tell
us
how
to love
a black man
just
pat
our backs
when
we
weep for
them
WILLIE L. KINARD III is a designer, art director and crystal collector currently talking to the Moon in Newberry, South Carolina. Black, queer & old-souled, he serves as a founding editor of For The Scribes has work in/forthcoming in CUNJUH Magazine and Glass: A Journal of Poetry. His first chapbook, chroma., was released spring of 2016.