Black Mermaids:  Gratitude Edition, a chapbook collection, 
features poetry, prose and the author’s favorite quotes. 
It is the third book in the Black Mermaids series. 
 
 
BELOVED (excerpt)
 
While reading you Beloved 
Starving the tears in my eyes 
A ghost baby 
Fighting for love on this side
Haunted in my house 
Memories of my dead son heavy on me 
Your white tee a landing place

For the tears your lips could not catch first 
A reminder- 
My heart still beating 
A mosaic-
Broken 
And gathered in my chest