Here is a screenshot of one of three poems just up at Cultural Weekly. Many thanks to the immensely talented Alexis Rhone Fancher for asking for these. “The Sudden Violence of Light” is about a lot of things, but especially my powerful grandmothers, who somehow got fused into one person here, as sometimes happens in poems. 

Here’s the full page: http://www.culturalweekly.com/melissa-studdard-three-poems/