Brandy Is My Queer Fairy Godmother

Two poems by Oak Morse

Brandy Is My Queer Fairy Godmother

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Track Heat Black Gene

or, a breathless double-sonnet of you-misunderstand-me

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A Portrait of Black Man Wrestling with His Secret Self

or, an inner cosplay ode to the singer Brandy

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