Valentines: Three Sonkus by Edythe Rodriguez
a jonesin sonku
give me a
brown are
ola love / land
of milk and
honeyed skin
pressed tight / slick
home from work sonku
the front door
unlocks, swing
ing open.
I drop the
laundry, socks,
my drawers.
wherever we at sonku
a light touch
burns, draws me
into your
shade, so you
take me by
the water.
About Edythe Rodriguez
Edythe Rodriguez is a Philly-based writer who studied Africology and creative writing at Temple University. She loves neo-soul, battle rap, and long walks through old poetry journals. Her work is a call for aggressive healing and is published or forthcoming in Obsidian, Sonku Literary Magazine, Raising Mothers, and elsewhere.