NIKKI SPILLS THE BEANS 

and says I am capable 

of space travel. She says 

it’s the saltwater & moon

-shine in my blood. She says 

like love, I’ve come; from 

a known through an unknown, 

to an unknown. She says

destiny feels like a good cry, 

like a middle passage trek 

backward toward the cosmos, 

back to where I came from, 

closer to the God I pray to.