Sorrowland

by Rivers Solomon

How come white folks were always telling Black people to get over slavery because it was 150 or so years ago but they couldn’t get over their Christ who died 1,830 years before that?

“The wolves always flush out the runaways,”

These were the Ascensions, the name Cainites gave to the redeeming drownings.

Vern was not a sentimental person. Things had their time. The world rushed and moved. Everything and everyone was forgettable, compostable.

People aren’t born. They’re made.

self-sustaining population with a high susceptibility to the fungus.”