Dreams of Sand I am the Blackest I have ever been, standing with my back turned against white sea foam, my toes under eroded rocks. My father is tinted purple...
Author - Khadija Ceesay
Khadija Ceesay (she/her/hers) is a Gambian poet from Olathe, Kansas. She is currently an undergraduate student at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas and plans to continue attending graduate school to study creative writing. She has been recently published in the Southeast Kansas literary magazine, Cow Creek Review. She has been writing poetry since 2014 about her racial identity in order to understand parts of herself and owes much of the ideas behind her work to her relationships with family, both good and bad. | @/honeycolumn