writing lines

Liberation Poetics
Written by ariel c.c. ward

Photo by Zayne Airall, Intersect Antigua-Barbuda.

“i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim

the language that i was taught to hate myself in/”

— Ntozake Shange

The poem, “writing lines,” typed onto handmade paper constructed with sugarcane and bush tea by the poet, ariel c.c. ward.

ariel c.c. ward

ariel c.c. ward is a professional daydreamer and scholar in the metaphor of the mundane. She writes in the wonder of what happens when our lives move beyond the velvet curtains of taboo and silence to make place together on the main stage of our realities. A descendant of the brilliance and joy of black British and Caribbean matriarchs, her creative conjures are anchored in crafting community through physical or felt connection.

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