Rosamond S. King

Here’s a poem for this beautiful Saturday morning by American poet Rosamond S. King.

Rosamond S. King is an African American, queer, female poet and the author of All the Rage (Nightboat, 2021) and Rock | Salt | Stone (Nightboat Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Poetry.

As in. (shadow)

Breathe

. As in what if

the shadow is gold

en? Breathe. As in

hale assuming

exhale. Imagine

that. As in first

person singular. Homonym

:. As in subject. As

in centeroftheworld as in

mundane. The opposite of spectacle

spectacular. This is just us

breathing. Imagine

normalized respite

gold in shadows

. You have the

right to breathe and remain

. Imagine

that-

-Rosamond S. King