boxing gloves --
beefsteak tomatoes dangle
in sunlight
we sprinkle shirts
while the flatirons heat
morning mist
frogs croak
in the shallows
tambourines
water jugs
catching dust
thunderclouds
L. Teresa Church resides in Durham, North Carolina and is a native of
Virginia. She is a playwright, freelance writer, quilter, poet,
library professional, and member of the Carolina African American
Writers' Collective. Her writings have appeared in publications such
as Southern Theatre; Fertile Ground; The Saracen Literary Magazine;
BMa: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review; Word and Witness: One Hundred
Years of North Carolina Poetry; Sauti Mpya: The Literary magazine of
the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center; Exquisite Reaction;
Moonwort Review; Nocturnes (Re)view of the Literary Arts; Drumvoices
Revue; and Black Arts Quarterly. In 1989, Church won the North
Carolina Arts Council's Playwrights Fellowship for her third play,
"ONE DAY WHEN I WAS LOST."
L. Teresa Church resides in Durham, North Carolina and is a native of
Virginia. She is a playwright, freelance writer, quilter, poet,
library professional, and member of the Carolina African American
Writers' Collective. Her writings have appeared in publications such
as Southern Theatre; Fertile Ground; The Saracen Literary Magazine;
BMa: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review; Word and Witness: One Hundred
Years of North Carolina Poetry; Sauti Mpya: The Literary magazine of
the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center; Exquisite Reaction;
Moonwort Review; Nocturnes (Re)view of the Literary Arts; Drumvoices
Revue; and Black Arts Quarterly. In 1989, Church won the North
Carolina Arts Council's Playwrights Fellowship for her third play,
"ONE DAY WHEN I WAS LOST."