Diamond in the back, sunroof top, digging the scene with a gangster lean. — William Devaughn Déjà vu, as when she hums hibiscus to our toe tap weighed down by smoke, the cigar drowned like a spilled drink licked from a wobbling table, stains the piano’s sugar pine over calypsos and daiquiris of a watering […]
Phillip Shabazz
Phillip Shabazz is the author of three poetry collections and a novel in verse. His poetry has been included in the anthologies Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook and Home Is Where: African American Poetry from the Carolinas. His work has appeared in Fine Lines, Galway Review, Hamilton Stone Review, and elsewhere.