Amaud Jamaul Johnson

  He promises a canary dress, white gloves, says they’ll eat chops, thick as her thighs, that they’ll order doubles of the “finest,” see all the Big Names when they arrive. But it’s the thought of them dead: half of what they own dra [...]

  Vicksburg, Mississippi May 16, 1919 For the general good Such, even the smell Is customary; like figs Gray and gamy, rotting Among the orchard mulch. And an old woman Remembers her children As little monkeys for its branches, Their hinged arms [...]

  July 27th, 1919: Eugene Williams, 17, found dead at the 26th Street Beach, who apparently drowned after being struck on the head by a blunt object. What might seem like dumb luck isn’t, it’s not happenstance, or being in the wrong place [...]

  1. four men, businessmen, down coon hunting from Helena; two Fisk men, two Philander, cussing over old football scores, humming fight songs, crouched behind a late-autumn thicket. on the way back to their Packard, coonskin full in their sac [...]