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    Village
    Village
    Village
    Ebook167 pages1 hour

    Village

    By LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

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    Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.

    In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage, language, and choice, disrupting attempts at reconciliation across generations. Questioning who is deemed worthy of public memorialization, Diggs raises new monuments, tears down classist tropes, offers detailed instructions for her own international funeral celebrations, and makes visible the hidden labors of care and place. From corners in Harlem through North Carolina back roads, Diggs complicates the concept of “survivor,” getting to the truth of living in the dystopia of poverty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoffee House Press
    Release dateFeb 7, 2023
    ISBN9781566896627
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      Village - LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

      distillery

      Performance

      To assist my survivors in making arrangements

      at the time of my departure,

      i provide the following information:

      1.

      NOTIFICATION.

      i desire that my peoples,

      of flighty species — two legged, winged, w/ domestic

      & international country codes &/or zip codes —

      be contacted immediately in order to offer assistance

      & relief for any milonga thrown by surviving

      estranged blood relatives.

      i disinherit all trifling estranged blood relatives.

      2.

      FUNERAL HOME/DIRECTOR.

      i desire that no funeral be held; instead,

      M___ V___ , T____ T___, my peoples

      winged, w/out scales, w/ capricious international

      country codes have been consulted

      in customizing a bedazzled urn

      & w/ making the celebratory, lampooning roast arrangements

      requested in this document.

      The arrangements have been made

      & are attached to this document as Exhibit 1.

      twilight lore

      somehow :: my great-aunt Mary Lightfoot erased herself

      the moment she collapsed on stage

      an opera w/ no recording :: no Van Vechten or

      Van Der Zee receipt

      what evidence :: if any left available :: concerning

      misspellings :: aliases :: contralto or mezzo :: coherent or intoxicated

      the surnames & clans i am bound to

      as they say :: you mommy :: took to the grave :: we became mythologies

      H over T bordered by an incomplete F

      hopscotch over a dress wearing T

      an imbalanced scale tittering in I

      the T died during Double Dutch :: the L resurrects

      boxed as an unequal :: put it on a heel & heal, won’t you

      but why the Y died?

      profile the tribe that liquor built :: its window the sheen of Wild Irish Rose

      Night Train bottleneck clunk :: fender bender ascensión conceptual

      now Hammond won’t you

      make it a brownstone on St. Nicholas :: make it gangrene on the brain

      make it an arm amputated :: an estranged first born ::

      a grandson :: prisoner #291865

      make it a cell at Allendale Correctional Facility

      bonds denied & in denial

      or the mind your beeswax’s from a bitter, gay grandson :: the rapist’s ayotli

      or the grandson deported to Panama, compliments of Obama

      scooped up by missionaries

      worn down by a buzz :: by HIV :: high & numbing

      or a walk-up near 7th :: inside a largely vacant tenement

      under Eastern European ownership

      the flash flood rains outside your door

      tetanus from flat head nails :: ruined goodies

      the Y died :: ladybugs suck salt from a crack in your ceiling

      the former walls now beams expose the bruise

      divide or equal to H to T & L :: discount dented tumblers

      dollar days

      on trapeze eased by airborne rings :: pop probiotics fizz binge flicks

      dark oars bloodshot & dentures as heirloom :: patakís & creation

      what tired pain brought on a cocoa butter postwar schtick?

      counting sheep

      feces on the first floor.mommy don’t know what she concoct.veering

      once she cautioned following the milk.good intentions.outlaw

      soirees on brownstone roofs.poppers.her kidneys.woozy

      club hops , ocean sprayed w/ spirits.but NoDoz studies in karma

      breed doubt in self.grow up to throw up.revisiting genocide.

      invoke commemorations.these decades.in threes.hydroxy

      cut.clumsy.tissue disconnect.through possible vice.low ripple

      earthquake rites in chocked motion.the corridor runs wreck at dusk .

      unintended wrecking of liver.a seizure of frenzied fits , reflux.soft

      musings that ruin.so dubious.a needle botched venture.twenty w/in

      weeks.fifty by July.undisclosed & marveled issues.mutant.

      how wonderful.to be complimented.when Prince Paul tune shadows

      reckon pills does things to the mind.when mirrors mirror contrast ,

      remember the gestures.child’s eyes eye an opening.righteous right

      she thought.reckon.no different.no better.like.mother .

      sobriety conjoined.destined if not conceding.

      tending to drunk mothers

      as is gentle as w/ all chosen mommas

      aunties, nanas :: the nurturing observed

      w/ kin not kin likely kin but always kindred

      don’t steal from the gumball machine

      offer instructions w/ a now baby :: don’t raise your voice

      raise your arm to support her weight

      tender always tender toward pitch of excitement

      hear how you pick up the phone

      as kin expect :: accept you should :: you will eventually anticipate

      the situation :: caring for your future version

      *

      near fledging :: never near adult :: the upward down obliged to depend

      soon accountable :: something owed to who birthed you :: to them

      for her/their service :: all those years

      a type of mothering not mothering :: a worrying :: did she teach you

      how to fly though ?

      chile :: ain’t no :: does it :: does not :: want to be accountable

      don’t want :: don’t know :: doesn’t say :: tenderly nor delightfully

      that she can’t / will fail at it

      why surprised ?

      what have you offered your youth inside this charm box so cruel ?

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