Odden

It was that he had to talk my mind without me there to odden up his thoughts.

The light still shines, even though the vessel be oddened, he had remarked once, and Emma, laughing, had kissed his bone-thick, fever-warm brow.

I cried to be fallen in the love, but in the autumn year of my young age, the villagers and Mama filtered me from the home and the village, for oddening the love.

I admit to feeling odd not by my self-infliction; rather, I feel “oddened” by White teacher candidates like this who unintentionally (or intentionally) misplace a racialized label on me as if I am “a commodity as spectacle,” […]