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https://baltimoreblackwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cicada.jpg by Jackie Oldham May 23, 20219:05am Sunday morning, 9amand already 79 degrees. Silence brokenby the one-note symphonyof cicadas singing from trees. But there’s a soloistwhose song rises above the rest—an urgent fifth – F to B flat Waaay-oh, repeating at steady intervals. Is this the lucky cicadawho found his…

Where I’ve Been Though I have not posted here since May 17th, I have been busy—writing, mostly; I’ve been posting new poems and promoting recent events on the companion Facebook page, Baltimoreblackwoman@jolivia1016. On Juneteenth 2021, I joined Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, founder and host of Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio, as a co-host, along with … More Catching Up with baltimoreblackwoman