CooXooEii Black (he/him) is an Afro-Indigenous member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe from the Wind River Reservation. He earned a BA in English with a focus on creative writing from Colorado College and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Memphis. While at the University of Memphis, he served as senior poetry editor for The Pinch Journal.
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On Mindfulness
Home is a sound.
I can hear it
in the western meadowlark, the inlaid rocks in my driveway,
in the accent and slang
of my mom’s voice.
It’s engrained
in her stretched vowels,
in her smashed-together words, in her
hard Rs,
and in the word rez.
I grew up hearing...