Category: First Drafts

• Bird Ode

  

  A tribute to some fascinating neighbors.

  Tahirah Walker

  May 30, 2022

  First Drafts, Poetry

• The DJ and The Heart

  

  This was never going to be a great love but it’s nice it never turned into a horrible heartbreak.

  Tahirah Walker

  May 16, 2022

  First Drafts, Reflections, Tahirah Wrote This

  looking back, memory, relationships

• Psaltery Body

  

  Working on redefining what it means to be well.

  Tahirah Walker

  April 14, 2022

  First Drafts, Poetry, Tahirah Wrote This

  Black women writers, Poetry

• Rites

  

  “My mother performed rites over me. Wrapped me in her wishes for pure and wholesome sweet. ”

  Tahirah Walker

  April 8, 2022

  Commentary Corner, First Drafts, Poetry, Tahirah Wrote This

  BBL Essentials

• 40 Thoughts I Had While Watching Booberton

  

  I should have been reading. I watched Bridgerton instead. Now I have thoughts.

  Tahirah Walker

  March 27, 2022

  BBL Essentials, First Drafts, Reflections, Tahirah Wrote This

  I should be reading, procrastination binge, Watching Bridgerton

• Life Changing

  

  Something amazing is happening. Not like I woke up and *everything* had changed. It’s more like wow look at that little thing growing there. And ooh there’s a seed I planted ten years ago. And sheesh look at that gorgeous area where I cleared away some dead pile of rot. One day I will wake […]

  Tahirah Walker

  March 19, 2022

  Career Thoughts, Essays, First Drafts, Gratitude, Tahirah Wrote This

• No Really, How Does It Feel?

  

  That time in the year 2000 when my sweet Beatle boy type friend went with me to a D’Angelo concert.

  Tahirah Walker

  March 17, 2022

  BBL Essentials, Commentary Corner, Essays, First Drafts, Reflections, Tahirah Wrote This

  Black women writers, concert memories, looking back

• Dear Issa M. Mas

  

  I call this time my march to May. March to May. It’s a wild forest of grief that I have to go through every year. And every year I realize no matter how much people want to travel with me or assure me they’ll be “here for me”, they really can’t fully do that and […]

  Tahirah Walker

  March 4, 2022

  Books Books Books, First Drafts, Gratitude, Letters, Tahirah Wrote This

• A Fifth

  

  A poem about a couple surviving addiction.

  Tahirah Walker

  February 19, 2022

  First Drafts, Poetry, Tahirah Wrote This

  alcoholism, Black women writers, Poetry, relationships, survival

• Portrait of The Pandemic as a Grown Man

  

  Something I drafted in January during the Omicron surge.

  Tahirah Walker

  January 23, 2022

  BBL Essentials, Essays, First Drafts, Reflections, Tahirah Wrote This