#samiya bashir

[yourdailyqueer]

Samiya Bashir

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: African American, Somali

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist, poet, writer, professor

[collectingpoetry]

Consequences of the Laws of Thermodynamics by Samiya Bashir

When Albert Murray said the second law adds up to the blues that in other words ain’t nothing nothing he meant it

not quite the way my pops says nomads don’t show emotions but more how my grandmother warned that men like women

with soft hands blood red nails like how Mingus meant truth if  you had time for it facts if  you got no time that

years pass. Zero one two three and the man you used

to flirt with you can no longer flirt with thank goodness.

He’s now a man you can’t wear your  jaw out on

about weather news or work

a perfect strawberry

buried beneath

a peck.

[queerafricans]

LGBTQ and Somali: Amna Ali, IDMAN, Samiya Bashir, Kiara Mohamed Amin, poolblood and OBUXUM

[blackqueernotables]

Samiya Bashir: poet and writer and visual artist.

[twiststreet]

[lifeinpoetry]

how we small each other / how we bind each other

— Samiya Bashir, from “Sometimes in a body,” Field Theories

[tamsoj]

Samiya Bashir, from Gospel, “Catch”

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

Let’s emit this fit of heat before we burn. Or let’s burn.

Samiya Bashir, Synchronous Rotation