Passing
He smiled, bending over to rest his hands on his knees and catch his
breath. With his head down he said, 'You know, she is getting a little strange,
your mother. There's some baby-mothers want her out the classroom, say she's
too crazy fo' black to be right in the head.'
by Kay Sexton
Kay has recently completed Green Thought in an Urban Shade, a
collaboration with the painter Fion Gunn to explore and celebrate the parks
and urban spaces of four cities in words and images. Green Thought was granted
residencies and exhibitions in London, Dublin and Beijing. Kay blogs about writing
fiction at www.writingneuroses.blogspot.com and has a regular column at www.moondance.org.
